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Experiment 4: Human, AI, or Null: Does Intentional Focus Alter Quantum Reality?
A rigorous three-way comparison of human, artificial, and null agents on quantum random number generator influence. Participate: Experiment 4 The Consciousness Detection Problem How do you know if something is conscious? We don’t really know and have difficulty even pinning down a definition of consciousness. Personally, I lean…
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Searching for Structure in Randomness Experiment 3
It’s been over a month since my last post, and a lot has shifted for me. When I built out Experiments 1 and 2, I thought the major challenges in validating psi research lay in experimental setup. I believed experimenters choosing which parts of data to analyze, dropping…
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Conscious Agents and the Simulation of Space-Time
What if reality isn’t the goal of perception, but a side effect of information filtering? Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality suggests our senses evolved to see what helps us survive, not what’s true. I take that one step further. Maybe consciousness itself runs on two levels; a…
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Does Structure Matter in Quantum Decoherence?
Physicist Vlatko Vedral has argued that we are not solid objects but informational patterns inside the universal quantum wave. Felix Finster’s Causal Fermion Systems go further, showing how spacetime itself may emerge from the relations among these patterns. If that’s true, then consciousness might simply be what it…
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Experiment 2: Stacked Deck
Resonance with Randomness The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab famously asked whether human intention could bias the outputs of random machines. Their studies collected millions of trials and reported tiny but statistically significant deviations. But follow-up replications by other labs—sometimes using PEAR’s own equipment and protocols—found no…
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Experiment 1: Sealed Envelopes
Revisiting Zener Cards In Sealed Envelopes The Zener card test is famous mostly for its flaws. Five symbols, shuffled and guessed, were meant to probe psychic perception. But critics never ran out of ways to explain away results: the cards were bent, the experimenter smirked, the shuffles weren’t…