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the neurosceuce staff
a, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, and ,L
staff of me
theS“ t
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“”'7 Labe’™to,y *" Med to reeogniae the error. The dependent variable was
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measurements
prevented us tiom seeing an effect, even if one existed.
Thm experiment, pmvided
fi, Sniflcam
™the design of the next attempt to identify a
central nervous system correlate to AC.
'
4.
Enhancing
Detection of AC with Binary Coding
was to develop a message sending algorithm using AC
flit) tolZXr™?,^
“ °°r St£Ult,aKl^ P-J <e. g.
, mountains versus
flat) to act as
binary
bits in a standard two- by- fi ve
error correcting block code.
q^elow'tch nf°n
UCed
°fAC
> ahhouSh ** ^fistic*! power was
quite low.
Each of five receivers contributed only eight trials. Receivers
* individual effect
sizes ranged from -0,559 to 0. 224,
uual enea
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The effect size
11 ln
1 Ab,e 1 18 computed across all five receivers.
5.
AC
in Lucid Dreame (Baseline)
t° deten7
e
i
ifAC c*n be enhance
d in the altered state known as
a lucid
.
/*
' * dream 111 whlch the dreamer becomes aware that she or he is dreamin- an can
SISmd the wakmg world of this awareness). Three of the receivers were LucTdT
personnel had not been previously involved in AC
1 experiments
E^hrftauruceivemcMributetl
eight AC trials. Onepmdueed
solid evidence for AC
_u, FA-fl.
6S). The effect sizes fmm the remain
in g two receivers cannot be obtained
ofo.o“x ,h^:~
i:
- v“h'6 " T“kfe 1—- “ •*«-
6-
AC
in Lucid Dreams (Pilot)
Twenty one trials were conduced in this pilot study. The conditions were not ideal in that
each dreamer was allowed to take the intended target home for the night
Each target was
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ihre“i3 wer° “*»“ *»
«ov
potential tampering.
This breach of supervision was tolerated because of the additional
benefit ol the receivers
being comfortable in their own beds.
The effect size shown
in
Table 1 w,„ c„„p„,,d fran tbe „ot.ori.,.
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7.
Autonomic Dotootion of Remote Observation
biological systems make excahent targets tor an^ou^^
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8.
Central Nervous System Response to AC Signals
Generally, there is no known human activity that does not interrupt the production of alpha
rhythm.
ihis
includes
responding
to
external
stimuli,
internal
mental
activity,
or
intentionally moving a body part. We assumed,
therefore, that AC would also interrupt
alpha. Improving on earlier experiments, we collect EEG data and standard behavioral AC
datato could be analyzed in the usual way.
In addition, event related desynchronizations
ERD) resulting from d, reel .stimulation by
the AC target
during the feedback phase of a
trial were used as templates for match filters. These filters am the most sensitive
way to
search for the assumed similar ERD in the EEG record that was
collected during the AG
poition ot the trial.
°
We have only analysed one
hiKG lead and toned no ev,dence ot an
At V,mined KKI)
leads'
t me^ rCSOUrCeS beC°me available we vvi11
the analysis
for the remaining
Regardless of the outcome of this
analysis,
it
will be
a useful
result;
it
is almost
as
interesting if there is no ERD while there is significant evidence for AC
9.
ERD AC Behavior
Seventy-
trials were
blind judged by
the rank-order
technique.
Two of
the
receiver
pioduced independently significant results,
but the effect size shown
in Table
is
the
combined result for all three receivers.
10.
The Gradient of Shannon’s Entropy
This experiment is a
replication of the entropy and target-type portion of Experiment
he protocol was substantially improved by nar row,ng the, target-pool
bandwidth and by
monitoring the sessions.
Conceptually, the entropy- result appeared to replicate; that is the
larger the Shannon entropic gradient
in the target,
the better the AC.
The significantly
stronger effect size in the dynamic targets relied the improved
protocol.
because
the
significant correlation primarily came from the target difference,
it
is premature to assure
that
the
gradient ot
the entropy
is
the deciding
factor.
Added
to the manuscript for
pubhcation were the successful Monte Carlo results that favorably support this hypothesis
however, The effect size shown in Table 1 was computed across target type and receiver,
Comments
By definition
this data set does not contain a so-called file drawer problem.
That is, all the
data from the bAIC database were included lor examination
. Tor the six experiments that
used a more traditional AC protocol, regardless of conditions, the weighted (by number of
trials) effect size is 0.230*0.047 in 455 trials (p = 5.7*10'7
)
.*
All these experiments had been approved by the SOC and IRB.
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GLOSSARY
Not all the terms defined below are germane to this report, but they are included here for
completeness-
In a typical anomalous mental phenomena (AMP) task, we define:
* Anomalous Cognition (ACT)—A 1omi of information transfer in which all know sensorial
stimuli are absent. That is some individuals are able to gain access to information by an
as
yet unknown
process.
This
is
also known
as
Remote Viewing
(RV)
and
Clairvoyance.
* Agent—An individual who attempts to influence a target system by mental means alone.
* Analyst—An individual who provides a quantitative measure of AC.
This individual
usually is blind to experimental conditions and the intended target.
* Anomalous Perturbation (AP)—A lorm ot
interaction with matter in which
all known
physical mechanisms are absent. That is, some individuals are able to influence matter
by an as yet unknown process. This is also known as Psychokinesis (PK) .
* Beacon—An individual who, while receiving direct
sen&orial stimuli from an intended
target, acts as a Focus of attention for the receiver in AC experiments,
* Compute Assisted
S-earcfi (CAS )
- -The use of computer-generated options which
are
linked to real-world objects in a Search task.
* Eeedbadt— After a response has been secured, information
about he intended target
is
displayed to the receiver or agent.
* Monitor— An individual who monitors and AMP session to facilitate data collection.
* Noise— Incorrect elements in an AC response.
* Protocol—A template for conducting a structured data collection session.
* Receiver—An individual who attempts to perceive by AC and report information about a
seasonally isolated target. A Receiver is also known as a Subject or Percipient .
* Response— Material that is produced during an AC session.
* Search— The inverse of AC,
That is, given a known target, determine its location. This
is also known as Dowsing.
* Sender—An individual who, while
receiving direct sensorial stimuli from an intended
target, acts as a putative transmitter of that information to the receiver in AC experiments.
*
Session—A time interval during which AMP data are collected.
*
tipscialty—A given receiver s ability to be particularly successful with a given
class ot
targets (e g., people as opposed to buildings)
* Target—An item that is the focus of an AMP task (e,g.
f person, place, thing, event).
* Tm^elC^esigiiation—A method by which
a specific target,
against the backdrop of
all
other possible targets, is identified to the receiver (e.g.
f
geographical coordinates).
*
Trial—The smallest unit of data to be analyzed.
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