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Global Orgasm Day
Today is global orgasm day. Why? Well, why not? But the organizers do have a larger goal: "To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy, a synchronized Global Orgasm."
Lest you think this is purely prurient, do note that there is an interesting scientific component. The Global Consciousness Project is a peculiar project run out of Princeton University that has for many years been running experiments correlating random output devices with human consciousness. Results from 12 years of experiments show small but highly statistically significant results.
Beginning in 1998 the group started to record data from "eggs" (non-deterministic random number generators) located around the world. The data show or seem to show higher than random correlations with "global events" such as the funeral of Princess Diana (the events are designated in advance or before examining the data). The eggs will record whether today's global orgasm is associated with a perturbation in the global consciousness field.
Do I believe any of this? No. Will I participate in the experiment? Anything for science.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on December 22, 2006 at 07:10 AM in Current Affairs, Religion, Science, The Arts, Web/Tech | Permalink
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By the way, has anyone ever satisfactorily defined the concept "random"? Or did they just pick a definition out of the dictionary by dropping it on the floor and pointing to the open page blindfolded?
Posted by: Robert Speirs at Dec 22, 2006 8:49:52 AM
How nice of them to put it in the holiday season. I'm thinking though that the noise would make the any signal they hope to generate more difficult to detect. My guess is that anybody who hears about this and intends to participate would participate in any time of year, so right around memorial day might have worked better as far as reducing the noise. Any thoughts?
Posted by: Sunny Molini at Dec 22, 2006 11:40:39 AM
It's a shame to make a serious answer, Robert, as I love the Steven Wright bit, but anyway yeah, there is quite a lot of stuff on the definition of "random". Look into Greg Chaitin's work on Algorithmic Information Theory, or Don Knuth's books have good stuff on it.
Basically, something is "more random" if it's "less predictable". Chaitin took this to the limit by showing that there exist sequences which can't be "predicted" by any computation. And of course some physical processes are non-deterministic at the quantum level.
Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) at Dec 22, 2006 11:47:17 AM
how about time difference. It's alreayd the 23rd in China.
Posted by: Yan Li at Dec 22, 2006 12:37:36 PM
PEAR's work is dubious, to say the least-- see PEAR's Skeptic's Dictionary entry and this critique of their earlier remote-viewing experiments for some details.
Of course, this particular experiment is quite worthy.
Posted by: John at Dec 22, 2006 1:44:24 PM
My wife and I have done our part today for world peace! Merry Christmas! (said with contented smile)
Posted by: mm at Dec 22, 2006 2:36:22 PM
There's the 'wild self' again.
Posted by: Chairman Mao at Dec 22, 2006 4:57:15 PM
Very happily participated as well,already my world seems a bit more peaceful...
Posted by: Mssensiblshoes at Dec 22, 2006 5:19:49 PM
Hmm, . . . if this was widespread, there should be a slight uptick in births 9 months from now.
Posted by: Ray G at Dec 22, 2006 11:58:00 PM
Orgasm Day should be at least once a week! I want an orgasm! Please vote for me so I get free from my orgasm denial torture! You can vote on http://voteformyorgasm.blogspot.com/. I am in real need!!
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