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Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9 UNCLASSIFIED command for each trial being identified by the randomization technique discussed in Appendix C. In the 13 x 10 = 130 trials, consisting of a random distribution of 64 activity and 66 no-activity periods, 63 events of signal-to-noise ratio greater than unity were observed. Of these 63 events, 42 were distributed among the activity periods, 21 among the no-activity periods, a correlation significant at the p = 0.004 level. Subjects 52 and S6 also interacted with the device. Although subject efforts and observed perturbations sometimes coincided, activity was generally low and did not appear to be the signature of correlated activity under control. -A controlled ten-trial run with Subjects $2 and two such runs with Subject S6 yielded nonsignificant results. ; We therefore conclude that for Subject S1 the observed number of precisely timed events in pilot work coupled with the statis- tically significant (p - 0.004) correlation between subject effort and signal output in controlled runs indicate a highly probable cause-effect relationship. Thus it appears that a subject can interact with a second derivative magnetic gradiometer of sensitivity on the order of 107° Gauss /cm from a distance of 4 m. Further work would be required to determine the precise nature of the interaction, although given the equip- ment design the generation of a magnetic field is the most probable mechanism. A successful independent replication of this experiment has been carried out by Dr. Richard Jarrard, Geology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, using a single-coil cryogenic magnetometer.* The experiments, carried out with the subject in a room located 50 ft diagonally across a courtyard from the magnetometer room, resulted in events distributed across work and rest periods in ratio >3:1, re- spectively, paralleling our results. d. Discussion of Physical Perturbation Effects One significance of the perturbation of remote sensitive equipment lies in the indication that the remote-sensing channel may ke “Superconducting Technology Cryogenic Magnetometer. 113 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9
Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9 UNCLASSIFIED possess a bilateral aspect. That is, there is the possibility that an information-bearing signal can be coupled from an individual to a re- mote location as well as in reverse, thus implying that the information channel under consideration may sustain information transfer in either direction. The above concept has a rigorous basis in quantum theory in the so-called “observer problem," the effect of an observer on experi- Mental measurement. In quantum theory it is recognized that although the evolution of a physical system proceeds deterministically on the basis of Schrodinger's equation (or its equivalent), the result of a calcula- tion is not in general the prediction of a well-defined value for some experimental variable. Rather, it is the prediction of a range of possibilities with a certain distribution of probabilities. In a given measurement, however, some particular value for a variable is actually obtained, which implies that an additional event--so-called state vector collapse--must take place during the measurement process itself and in a manner that is unpredictable except probabilistically. Analysis of the significance of this latter process leads inescapably to the conclusion that to the degree that consciousness is involved in observation and measure- ment (and it always is), to that degree consciousness must also be seen to interact with the physical environment and to participate in the collapse of the state vector. Efforts to extract quantum theory from this conclu- sion by, for example, an infinite regression of measuring apparatus, have proved unsuccessful. These conclusions, arrived at by theorists such as Wigner,7? imply the possibility of nontrivial coupling between consciousness and quantum states of the physical environment at an extremely fundamental level. Such a realization has led to theories of paranormal phenomena modeled on the basis of this so-called "ob- server problem" in quantum theory. The phenomena implied by the observer problem are generally unobservable on the gross macroscopic scale for statistical reasons. This is codified in the thermodynamic concept that for an isolated system entropy (disorder) on the average increases, effectively masking the microscopié observér effects. It is just this requirement of 114 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9
Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9 UNCLASSIFIED isolation, however, that can be expected to be weakened under conditions of efforts at paranormal perturbation via the remote-sensing channel, and it can be argued that observer effects would be maximally operative in just those situations where the intrusion of consciousness as an ordering phenomenon could result in a significant local reversal of entropy increase. These considerations lead to the following series of conceptualizations or hypotheses around which future experiments can be designed. (1) Researchers in the area of willed pertur- bation effects appear to be plagued by results whose amplitudes have a signal-to-noise ratio near unity, regardless of the process or mechanism involved. This may indicate that, rather than simple perversity, what is being articulated by the experimental results is a coherence pheno- mena involving partial mobilization of system noise, as if the components of the noise spectrum had been brought into phase coherence, and thus the mag- nitude constraint. The subject would thus appear to act as a local negentropic (that is, entropy- decreasing) source. If true, it may be more advantageous as a practical matter to work with extremely noisy systems, rather than with highly constrained or organized systems, so as to maxi- mize possible effects due to the introduction of order. (2) Willed perturbation effects often appear to be more the result of coincidence that the effect of a well-defined cause. Again, rather than being the result of the perversity of nature, the ob- served goal-oriented synchronicity may indicate that physical systems are more easily manipulated 115 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9
Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9 UNCLASSIFIED at the global level of boundary conditions and constraints rather than at the level of mechan- ism. Thus, the apparency that a given result may be explained away by a coincidental but "natural" event needs to be explored more fully. Unexpected but natural causes may be the effect of a series of causal links, outside the defined experimental boundaries but representing an un- foreseen line of least resistance. At worst, such causal links may in fact be unobservable in the sense of the hidden variables concept in quan- tum theory, but nevertheless act as instruments of the will. (3) Willed perturbation effects appear to be intrinsically sporitaneous; i.e., it is difficult to evoke such effects "on cue," with the result that the phenomenon is often considered to not be under good control, and therefore not amenable to controlled experimentation. This difficulty is so pronounced that it is likely that we are observing some macroscopic analog of a quantum transition, an event similarly unpredictable in time except as a probability function. If the analogy is correct, experimentation in this area simply needs to be treated in the manner of, for example, weak photon experiments. (4) Possibly related to Item (3), the more closely one attempts to observe willed perturbation effects, the less likely one is to see them, a factor con- sidered by many to support hypotheses of poor observation, fraud, and the Like. To a sophis- ticated observer, however, simple dismissal does 116 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2006/11/29 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000300030004-9