Information and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research

 This paper reviews the strategic history of our major experimental research component in remote perception, and attempts to distill from its large accumulation of data some phenomenological understanding to complement that achieved in the human/machine portion. From the outset of the PEAR program there were strong indications that both of these extraordinary capacities of consciousness draw from the same ontological well, i.e., in one case consciousness is apparently extracting information from random sources by anomalous means; in the other, it is evidently inserting it. In the human/machine case, however, quantitative specification of the anomalous effect size is inherent in the output of the machines. In the remote perception investigations, quantification of effects becomes the central challenge and, as described this article, has dominated the research effort, eventually leading to profound insights into the basic nature of the phenomenon.

PII: S1550-8307(07)00063-8

doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.03.010

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