Increased coincidence detection for quantum versus pseudo-generated random numbers

People often see meaning in stimuli that are typically considered meaningless. According to Von Lucadou’s idea of Generalized Quantum Teory (GQT), such perceived coincidences, or examples of synchronicity, may be the result of entanglement between a conscious observer and the physical world. Here we test this idea by means of a ‘coincidence detection task’. Participants were shown a series of 150 randomly generated stimuli (here, a set of three numbers between 0 and 255), and had to indicate per stimulus whether that set of numbers held any meaning to them. Critically, the random source could either be a quantum event generator, or a pseudo random number generator. If ‘coincidences’ are indeed the result of quantum entanglement, or a process like it, we would expect an increased number of reported coincidences for quantum versus pseudo- random generated events. A preliminary data analysis shows that this indeed is the case: over 150 random pseudo-randomly generated numbers; this increased signifcantly to 12% for quantum generated random numbers. This result seems to suggest that synchronicities may indeed be interpreted as non-local correlations between an observer and the physical world.