Intention Experiments

Summary:

To briefly summarize this section of the web page:

  1. An experiment was designed to assess whether or not the human mind was capable of affecting physical systems.
  2. The experiment used a Random Event Generator (REG), which is a device that produces a statistically perfect and unpredictable output based on the fundamental properties of quantum mechanics.
  3. After ensuring that the output of such a device corresponded with statistical and theoretical expectations, in all environmental conditions, the experimenters asked “operators” to attempt to influence the output.
  4. The collective experimental results show that the device behaved much differently when operators were attempting to influence it than it did when calibrating.
    • Operators were able to shift the REG’s statistical output in ways that corresponded with their intention.
    • This effect is at times difficult to detect, but is extremely significant from a statistical point of view when looked at over many operators and over a long period of time.
    • The odds of the device producing the intention results by chance are on the order of 1 in trillions when all discrete experimental trials are summed together.
    • The operators were regular people; students, visitors, and volunteers from the Princeton community. They claimed no special abilities.
  5. When more robust devices were used that were immune to the effects of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, electromagnetism, and all other conceivable physical effects, the influence of intention persisted.
  6. To the extent that it could be measured in the lab, these effects appeared to be independent of distance, and possibly even time.
  7. No one fully understands what is responsible for creating these effects, including the operators themselves.
  8. The effect of intention on physical processes can be very difficult to study scientifically because there seems to be a correlation with psychological and subjective factors that can not be controlled.
  9. All indicators suggest that we will need to broaden our understanding of science and the physical world in order to fully explain and accommodate this empirical data.
  10. Psyleron’s goal is to continue conducting research in this field and to provide home users and researchers with their own REG devices and software so that they can explore and experiment with these and other effects.

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