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THE GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT AND RANDOM EVENT GENERATORS
Music originates solely in the brain.
Or does it?
Could global consciousness, or mass consciousness generally, influence music-making? Is there such a thing as global consciousness?
In 1998, researchers at Princeton University set up an international global consciousness monitoring system. They began placing dozens of electronic random event generators (REGs) in many countries around the world. These devices continue to generate sequential data completely at random. The REGs are independent of one another, so they cannot influence each other. Each REG periodically uploads its random data to the lab at Princeton.
The purpose of the experiment was (and still is) to test the following hypothesis:
The composite variation of the distribution means of data sequences (segments) recorded from multiple REGs during broadly engaging global events will deviate from expectation.