How can the correlations be explained? What physical mechanisms could allow the anomalous effects of focused world consciousness?
No fully satisfactory explanation is available, but some speculations in physics, healing research, and parapsychology touch upon the same issues. Basically, we have evidence for an influence or correlation that does not depend on ordinary physical mechanisms. Most likely, we will need some extensions of standard models that will include consciousness and its special attributes, including non-locality, true creativity, and meaning. If I understand correctly, the notion of “global consciousness” suggests that if many people are thinking about the same thing at the same time it can influence other events. What I find hard to grasp, however, is the process or mechanism by which shared consciousness (e.g., 9/11) could influence something inanimate like a random number generator. What am I not realizing? It isn’t what you miss, but what we don’t know. The empirical case is good, but theoretical modeling is weak and speculative. The best bets are quantum mechanical entanglemant (operating in
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