Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
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Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab's website is shared, sparking discussion about the legitimacy and scientific validity of their research into consciousness and anomalous phenomena.
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"PEAR conducted formal studies on two primary subject areas, psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing" ... "PEAR's results have been criticized for deficient reproducibility.[16] In one instance two German organizations failed to reproduce PEAR's results, while PEAR similarly failed to reproduce their own results.[13] An attempt by York University's Stan Jeffers also failed to replicate PEAR's results.[9]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Engineering_Anomalie...
Personally, I don't believe in the "anomaly". However. I still can't explain it. I mean it's not like my mind could interface with CMOS or that the calculator was fed off some quantum number generator or even an analog source. It was a deterministic pseudorandom number generator.
Yet, I spent two years of my teenage years obsessed with the experiment and the results. LOL.
https://noosphere.princeton.edu/gcpdot/