Influence of intention on reality

• Human minds can affect random physical processes, to a minor but statistically detectable degree.
• The effect seems to disappear when deterministic (pseudo-random) sources are substituted.
• The effect is idiosyncratic (different individuals produce different results).
• The effect is erratic, showing long-term fluctuations which can be partly (but only partly) explained by changes in the operator pool.
• The scaling in response to simple physical variables is not obvious: for example, speeding up sampling by a factor of 10 produced no detectable difference in the effect size per bit, but speeding up sampling by a factor of 10,000 inverted the sign of the effect and reduced the per-bit effect size by a factor of 30.

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