Global Consiousness

As you might not know I lost complete interest in politic and world affair. The present cult of personality that people have toward the new president in the U.S remind me the cult of personality people had in the Germany in the 30s. I’d better stay away of that.
But, there is an interesting thing that project called the Global Consciousness Project described as follow:

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement.

They have done some measurement during the inauguration day:

According to Dean Radin blog the red arrow on the plot points to the moment when the oath of office was being recited. This is an exploratory analysis, so it shouldn’t be regarded as persuasive as a preplanned analysis would be. But still, the coincidence in time between what was arguably the single most anticipated moment by hundreds of millions of viewers during the inauguration, and the spike in odds at the same time, is quite striking.

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