Global Consciousness Program(GCP): Machines can read your mind

Reality is wilder than fiction. If you are reading it for the first time: Welcome. And if you already knew this: Welcome back.

The article below is not a story out of Isaac Asimov's Science fiction or a plot by Wachowski brothers. Its real and the people in Princeton University are working on it.

The Global Consciousness Program (GCP) is a research that collective feelings and emotions create resonance. This resonance has the power to change the course of universe! Sounds weird? Read on…

When groups of people produce the same feelings and emotions, a resonance occurs. Like the 9/11 incident, Barack Obama's oath, Princess Diana's death etc. At these occasions millions of people experienced same emotions. Even at midnight of a New Year people have similar emotions. Is it possible then these subtle emotions when produced in sheer volume have an impact on the universe? Can the course of Universe be molded if a reverberation of emotions occurs?

GCP is a research led by Princeton University which tries to unravel this supernatural secret. It uses a network of computers spread across the globe to produce some random data and then try to establish a pattern in that data. They found the pattern. The weird thing is that this pattern is disturbed from the normalized line at occasions like 9/11, Tsunami in 2005, Chechen hostage tragedy in 2002, etc. This shows that the subtle but powerful resonance of human emotions has the power to affect the reality axis. The coherent group consciousness is the core of GCP program.

Lectures on GCP

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So what is GCP?

Global Consciousness Project (GCP) was pioneered by international group of researchers from Princeton University who probably saw many sci-fi movies in their childhood and now pronouncing them in real life. Perhaps some of them can also bend spoons just by their mental power. So you should join them if you too are a sci-fi movie buff!

The core of GCP as told above, lies in group consciousness. The research in GCP records the effect of events that stimulate us to join as a world-wide consciousness, like the New Year eve, when we are all absorbed in celebrations. We are all happy and jovial at that time. Here "we" symbolizes 6 billion people. This "happiness" creates a resonance because of sheer momentum of the number of people involved. Now GCP is a research which tries to answer, "Can this resonance affect non-living things as well?" The research says "yes" (WOW!)

How is the research done?

This part is interesting. GCP works with a network of electronic devices that produce COMPLETELY RANDOM data at dozens of sites, hundreds of times a second, around the world and merge it via the Internet to a central computer.

The central computer is called "NOOSPHERE" after Teilhard de Chardin's idea of a global intelligence… (Remember IRIS from Jonny Quest?!) It gathers all the data, processes it according to sophisticated programs and archives the results. The data is collected several times a second at each of the nodes in the network, thus producing several TBs of data each day.

Thus GCP is a GLOBAL NETWORK of electronic devices producing continuous random data sequences. Subtle patterns in the data are linked with events that cause shared emotions in millions of people. The results challenge common ideas about the world, but independent analyses confirm the unexpected patterns, and also indicate that they cannot be attributed to ordinary physical forces or electromagnetic fields.

Results

The continuous streams of similar pattern from these nodes tend to depart from expectation when major "Global Events" stimulate a wide-spread coherence of thoughts and emotions. These three samples show the average of the cumulative deviation from data collected during such events.

Correlation Patterns at 9/11 2001, Wellstone Plane Crash 2002, Chechen Hostage Tragedy 2002

Random data generally wanders around the horizontal line at zero, while a consistent deviation resulting in a sloping trend indicates that something changed the output of GCP instruments.

"We don't yet know how to explain the subtle correlations between events of importance to humans and the GCP data, but they are quite clear.

The results are evidence that the physical world and our mental world of information and meaning are linked in ways that we don't yet understand."

-Researchers at Princeton [www.noosphere.princeton.edu]

So the next time you invoke a mass bunk and the whole class joins in, remember, the resonance of feelings is disturbing a global pattern that is captured by GCP machines, and you are changing the course of Universe…

If you are fascinated by the idea, you can do more than just reading… you can host a GCP node at your home. Just shoot a mail to rdnelson@princeton.edu. Specific requirements are given at http://noosphere.princeton.edu/eggreq.html

Read more @:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Thoughts have Power

Are peace and non-violence outdated concepts?

Today we had debate in the college (29^th Jan 09) on a vintage topic "are peace and non-violence outdated concepts?" I did not participate because my bus goes at 5pm and my turn was supposed to come at 6. Nonetheless I heard the views of many people before leaving. Almost all favored the topic. Cool! While returning, I was pondering on the topic as I didn't have time to issue my book from library!

Many times on my way back home, I have seen people involved in verbal duals. With their vehicles parked on the road, blocking the traffic behind and issuing abuses to each other. Sometimes even resorting to fisticuffs. And I wonder, how the ugly scene could have been avoided if either of the them had guts to smile and say "sorry" to the other when they bumped into each other. A smile is a curve that straightens up many problems and prevents violence.

Why do you have to shed blood when things can be sorted just by applying a pinch of gray matter? If you have got enough blood then go and donate it… and let someone else gain life.

The Advertisment story

A product is launched!! but will it do well? will it strike the right chord with the public?

A bad advertisement and the answers to all the above will be in negative!!! the biggest power that you can give to someone is "the power to decide the fate of things around him" 

I am bestowed with this power to make a printed media advertisment for a laptop by Axis-Net. Here it goes:

Business laptop manufacturer Axis has to unveiled an online marketing campaign for the promotion of its Trendy Budget based laptops with a starting range of Rs 30,000/- onwards.

For the first time in India, they have come up with both solar and electricity rechargeable batteries in their laptops at the same time.

They have started a Social community website “AXIS-NET” on Internet to promote it.

And have started a referral programme as a promotional scheme where by referring

the website to three friends will entitled them to play a quiz and every week, one

winner on the basis of a Lucky draw will win a Laptop.

The advertisement should have:

1. Name of The Product

2. Tagline

3. Logo

This is what I made

All about Chrome

For a decade now, Google has helped us a great deal. And is still adding more innovation so that we can live life king sized! This company has created an identity (read index) for everyone. So the past decade witnessed a billion people loving Google more than their spouses (literally). 

You can feel this love of Google (again literally) at http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday 

Google seldom produces desktop products. But when it does, they are hyped. The first sensation was Google earth and now Chrome.

Chrome is meant to be simple. Its this logic that derives the engine behind chrome. The guys at Google did an intensive case study before cooking chrome to ensure lasting flavor and aroma. They realized a potent fact that a web browser needs to be designed from scratch, since the world has moved too far ahead of the first web page created fifteen years back.

Google went ahead with this and created the open source Chrome which is as light as feather and as powerful as Rock (feel the pun). They realized that now a web page is not just simple text page rather its a collection of rich interactive features and embedded applications. This requires a browser platform that understands the contingencies of the application and provide an impeccable ambiance for its execution. So instead of revising an existing browser, they redesigned the foundation and reframed the components under one hood.

The result was Chrome that gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

The best thing is that Chrome keeps all the tabs in isolated “sandbox” (see picture) thus preventing the entire browser to crash even if a site goes haywire. Remember your fury when your FireFox crashed just because you tried to open a 5mb pdf file on the browser itself? Its very simple in Chrome to shut the ungrateful rogue site and continue life. 

Here’s a simple demo how to do so:

If a site stops responding, open up the Task Manager. Figure out which Chrome sandbox is consuming the maximum memory due to instability. With all probability this sandbox is the culprit. Just press End Task and switch to the same site.

The poor webpage is devoured… and you’ll see this message being flashed on the screen.

This is one best reason of me using Chrome… there are several others too though.

Chrome allows you to work in “incognito window” which does not store any personally identifiable data locally like web history, cookies or searches. (It however cannot protect you from the data captured by a website or the people standing behind you!) So use this feature if your cyber cafewala has chrome installed.

Chrome uses V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

It has a nice charming interface that allows you to swap the location of tabs in fancy animation, the download button '↓' zooms in and out nicely, and the tabs when undocked are converted to new windows!

Other features include- inbuilt Task Manager, JavaScript Console and debugger, adding to a developer’s delight! Chrome is open source and allows you to view/edit its code. Available at http://code.google.com/chromium/

Chrome also has an inbuilt spell check engine which nudges you every time you fill a wrong word in a web form (just like firefox!). It also suggests you for the most appropriate website when typing in the address bar and auto completes Google searches made in it.

Enough simplicity. What if you want to use some add-ons?

A juicer point of discussion here is that why Chrome does not support toolbars? Including its own, vintage Google toolbar. And the interesting part is that it must had hurt Google more that you by lowering its ads revenue via toolbar searches, then why did they disable the use of ad-ons in Chrome? The probable answer is that this is a beta release and they just want to test the market before applying more layers.

So friends in this detailed enlightenment process you are left with one dilemmatic question “To be or not to be”… The wise answer is: if you like simplicity and cleanliness around you, Chrome is for you. If you like hip hop, colors and extravaganza use firefox… and if you cant move a step without a walking stick, use Internet Explorer!

Retrospect your decision at www.google.com/chrome