[NetBehaviour] Digital Parapsychology

[Joel Weishaus]

Ron;

You may be interested in this project I did a few years ago:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Ghosts/text.htm

Best,
Joel

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rob Myers 
  To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
  Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 7:54 AM
  Subject: [NetBehaviour] Digital Parapsychology


  http://robmyers.org/2011/10/15/digital-parapsychology/index.html


  The (quasi-)scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena is a
  category error. Paranormality is qualitative affect, not quantitative
  effect. To the extent that it has physical effects these are not
  physically caused.

  Seeking to reduce the numinosity of the paranormal to number is a
  mistake. It should be experienced, it should be retold, it should resonate.

  But decades of research and reporting of the paranormal have amassed
  large quantities of data. In the age of Big Data, digitizing, analysing
  and relating this data with other data sources (news, geodata, parish
  records, government statistical information) can find evidence that has
  previously been missed and suggest new theories and new lines of
  investigation.

  I propose Digital Parapsychology.

  Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP,
  clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance
  mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?

  Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night?

  Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic?

  Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost?

  Get yourself a Hadoop cluster and start feeding your EMF meter and IR
  sensor readings into map-reduce jobs to correlate them with historical
  and live feed data...
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