Originally published July 31 2005
The mind could slightly effect a computer's output
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Since 1979 Researchers at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program, or Pear, have been trying to measure the effect of human consciousness on machines. Research shows that one out of every 10,000 bits of data measured could be altered by the mind.
Yet no one hears the conversations because they occur between the minds of experimenters and the machines they will to action.
Researchers at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program, or Pear, have been attempting to measure the effect of human consciousness on machines since 1979.
Using random event generators -- computers that spew random output -- they have participants focus their intent on controlling the machines' output.
Out of several million trials, they've detected small but "statistically significant" signs that minds may be able to interact with machines.
The lab is led by Princeton professor emeritus Robert Jahn, a physicist and former dean of the university's engineering school.
Jahn became interested in the mind-machine connection in 1977 when an undergraduate student proposed designing a random event generator, or REG, for her thesis.
Instead, the lab has relied on private donors like James S. McDonnell, founder of McDonnell Aircraft (later McDonnell Douglas and now part of Boeing), Laurance Rockefeller and John Fetzer, former owner of the Detroit Tigers baseball team and CEO of Fetzer broadcasting.
"McDonnell said he couldn't in good conscience put a young man in the cockpit of an F-18 and assume that all of the highly sophisticated equipment was totally invulnerable to the stress that the pilot would be under in combat or other emergencies," Jahn recalled.
Researchers attached circuitry to the device to translate the noise into ones and zeroes.
Each participant, following a prerecorded protocol, developed an intention in her or his mind to have the generator alternately spew out more ones, then more zeroes, and then do nothing at all.
When the machine releases the pendulum to swing from a set position, participants focus on changing the rate at which the pendulum slows to a stop.
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