Connections Through Time, Issue 13: October - December 2001
Can individual intentions affect Random Number
Generators (RNGs)? The answer is yes,
and the "odds against chance" of being wrong in reaching this
conclusion are about
3,000,000,000,000 to 1 (3 trillion to 1)!
This conclusion has been reached and published in
a paper entitled, Correlations
of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a
12-Year Program, R. G. Jahn, B. J. Dunne, R. D. Nelson, Y. H. Dobyns, and G.
J. Bradish, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR), School of
Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, 1997. Here is
part of their abstract:
Strong correlations between ... random binary processes and prestated
intentions of some 100 individual human operators have been
established over a 12-year experimental
program. More than 1000 experimental series, employing four
different categories of random devices and several
distinctive protocols, show comparable magnitudes of anomalous
mean shifts from chance expectation, with similar
distribution structures. Although the absolute effect sizes are
quite small, of the order of 10–4
bits deviation per bit
processed, over the huge databases accumulated the composite
effect exceeds 7s (p = 3.5 x 10–13).
The language used in the abstract is indicative of the model
of consciousness that Jahn and Dunne propose
in their book, Margins
of Reality : The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World.
... the role of consciousness in the physical
world indeed emerges endowed with an active component. By virtue
of the fundamental
processes by which it exchanges information with its
environment, orders that information,
and interprets it, consciousness has the ability to bias
probabilistic systems, and thereby to
avail itself of certain margins of reality.
In the RNG experiments an "operator's intention" is the "active component". So, the model proposes that the operator's conscious intent somehow leads to an exchange of information with the RNG at a level of about 1 bit of deviation from chance out of 10,000 bits of information.
Note that the specific bits of information being affected in the RNG devices are not identified. In fact, there is no way to identify anything unusual except through the statistics and probabilities. Note that the PEAR scientists are not claiming that this is PsychoKinesis (PK) where a physical object is affected in an observable way. They are claiming that the operator's intention somehow influences the random nature of the "information" from the RNGs.
Even influencing only 1 bit in 10,000 may be quite significant. For example, consider the human nervous system and how particularly sensitive it is to small signals. Consider that your body does have quantum mechanical features as discussed in Quantum Vitalism, by Dr. Stuart Hameroff, M.D. So, when you intend to walk, one viewpoint is that you are making a connection with your nervous system that is similar to the connection make by "operators" on RNGs.
Once you realize that
human beings have RNG aspects to them, then telepathy and other intuitive skills
become part of the same mystery - the mystery of consciousness itself. In
particular, note that the equivalent to precognition has been observed in the
PEAR tests; here is a quote from the paper
concerning the timing of the operator's intention to affect the RNGs.
In a subset of this remote database, comprising some 87,000 trials per intention, the
operators address their attention to the machine’s operation at times other than those at which the
data are actually generated. Such “off-time” experiments have ranged from 73 hours before to
336 hours after machine operation, and display a scale and character of anomalous results similar
to those of the locally generated data ... As with the distance separations, no
dependence of the yield on the magnitude of the temporal separations is observed over the range
tested.
Now, let's take a closer look at what worked for these operators. They used many "techniques"
to affect the
RNGs, including: intense concentration, passive attitude, or listening to music. In another paper, Jahn and
Dunne say:
The cultural implications on our society of this active role of consciousness
in creating our reality is discussed at the PEAR site
as follows:
References
Correlations
of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a
12-Year Program, R. G. Jahn, B. J. Dunne, R. D. Nelson, Y. H. Dobyns, and G.
J. Bradish
If there is any commonality to be found in this
diversity of strategy, it would be that the most effective operators tend to
speak of the devices in frankly anthropomorphic terms, and to associate
successful performance with the establishment of some form of bond or resonance
with the device, akin to that one might feel for one’s car, tools, musical
instruments, or sports equipment.
... we can now rigorously demonstrate
on the laboratory bench, and to some extent in the corresponding models, that
human intention, will, volition, desire, by any name, deployed in
self-surrendering resonance with even a simple physical system or process, can
significantly affect the latter’s behavior, and that the same deployment of
human intention in resonance with another human consciousness can condition
their mutual reality to a significant extent.
Beyond its scientific impact and its technological applications,
clear evidence of an active role of consciousness in the establishment
of reality holds sweeping implications for our view of ourselves, our
relationship to others, and to the cosmos in which we exist. These, in
turn, must inevitably impact our values, our priorities, our sense of
responsibility, and our style of life. Integration of these changes
across the society can lead to a substantially superior cultural ethic,
wherein the long-estranged siblings of science and spirit, of analysis
and aesthetics, of intellect and intuition, and of many other subjective
and objective aspects of human experience will be productively reunited.
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Science
of the Subjective, Robert
G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne (1997), Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
(PEAR) Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton
University
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A Modular Model of Mind/Matter Manifestations (M5), R. G. Jahn, B. J. Dunne (Fall, 2001), Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR), School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, Published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 15, Number 3
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