The Global Consciousness Project: An Internet-Based, Worldwide Experiment in Correlated Randomness

Record summary

Roger Nelson’s Global Consciousness Project assembled a worldwide network of physical random-number generators and examined departures from expected randomness during events presumed to produce shared attention or emotion. The project is a specific, searchable research program with archives, event lists, statistical reports, and a long-running interpretive controversy. It may matter for comparing collective-consciousness hypotheses with time-series analysis and event selection. Critics have questioned post hoc event boundaries, multiple comparisons, dependence, and the physical and statistical assumptions behind the network.