Global Consciousness Project — Self-Hosted

A live network-variance tracker inspired by the Global Consciousness Project. Distributed "egg" containers contribute random numbers; the server runs statistical analysis and displays a colored dot.

Architecture

Egg containers (anyone can run)
        │  POST /api/data  (one 200-bit trial per second)
        ▼
    Server (FastAPI + SQLite)
        │  runs Stouffer Z network variance analysis every 60 s
        ▼
    Website  →  animated dot  +  history chart  +  embeddable iframe

Quick start — run the server

git clone <this-repo>
cd gcp
docker compose up -d

The site is now at http://localhost:8000.

To expose it publicly, put it behind a reverse proxy (nginx, Caddy) or deploy to any VPS / cloud service.

Contribute an egg

Anyone can run an egg — one Docker command:

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped \
  -e SERVER_URL=https://your-domain.com \
  -v gcp_egg_data:/data \
  git.hexadual.io/rocobo/gcp-dot-egg:latest

The egg:

• Reads 200-bit trials from the OS hardware-entropy pool (os.urandom) once per second
• Sends the trial count (0–200) to the server
• Persists its ID across restarts via /data/egg_id

Images (built automatically by Gitea Actions)

Every push to main builds and publishes both images to the Gitea container registry:

Image	Pull command
Server	docker pull git.hexadual.io/rocobo/gcp-dot-server:latest
Egg	docker pull git.hexadual.io/rocobo/gcp-dot-egg:latest

How the analysis works

Every 60 seconds the server analyses the past hour of data:

1. Normalise each trial to a Z-score: z = (trial − 100) / √50 (expected mean = 100, variance = 50 for Binomial(200, 0.5))

2. Stouffer Z per second across all active eggs: S_t = Σzᵢₜ / √N

3. Network variance: V = Σ S_t² — follows χ²(T) under H₀

4. Index = lower-tail CDF × 100:

   • High index (> 95) → small variance → eggs are more coherent than chance → blue
   • Low index (< 5) → large variance → eggs are noisier than chance → red
   • Middle (40–90) → normal random behavior → green

Color table

Color	Index	Meaning
Blue	> 95%	Significantly small variance — deep coherence
Cyan	90–95%	Small variance — probable coherence
Green	40–90%	Normal random behavior
Yellow	10–40%	Slightly elevated variance
Orange	5–10%	Strongly elevated variance
Red	< 5%	Significantly large variance

Embed the dot

<iframe src="https://your-domain.com/gcp.html"
        height="48" width="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

API

Endpoint	Description
POST /api/data	Submit a trial {egg_id, timestamp, trial}
GET /api/status	Latest analysis result
GET /api/history?limit=60	Last N analysis records
GET /api/eggs	Eggs active in the last 2 minutes

Environment variables

Server

Variable	Default	Description
DB_PATH	/data/gcp.db	SQLite database path

Egg

Variable	Default	Description
SERVER_URL	http://localhost:8000	Server to send data to
EGG_ID	auto-generated	Override the egg's identifier