Imagine you’re in a moment of deep connection: during a meditation, a meaningful conversation, or a ritual that seems to touch something beyond words. Now imagine a subtle technology nearby—like the Wyrd Light or Wyrdoscope—quietly tracking patterns in randomness. Later, you discover that at the exact moment of emotional intensity, the data shows a remarkable shift. What happened?
To make sense of these kinds of patterns, Wyrd Technologies draws on a scientific framework called the Model of Pragmatic Information (MPI). It’s one of the few models that can explain how and why our inner lives seem to interact with the outer world in mysterious, meaningful ways.
A Theory Built for the Weird (and Wyrd)
The MPI was developed by physicist and psychologist Walter von Lucadou, who spent decades studying so-called “psi phenomena”—things like telepathy, mind-matter interaction, and synchronicity. Instead of treating these as magical or imaginary, MPI sees them as real effects that happen under very specific conditions.
What he found: these effects aren’t caused by energy, force, or signals. Instead, they appear as non-local correlations—patterns that arise across an entire system when there is meaningful coherence.
The Three Core Principles of MPI
MPI is guided by three main laws (with a fourth emerging). They help explain why psi effects sometimes show up—and why they tend to disappear when we try to measure them like physical events.
First Law: Entanglement Through Meaning
Psi effects (like telepathy or intentional influence) appear in organisationally closed, self-organising systems. That means systems where all the parts—people, context, even tools—are tightly interconnected around a shared purpose or experience. This is similar to quantum entanglement, but in macroscopic, everyday situations.
Second Law (NT-Axiom): You Can’t Use It Like a Signal
This is the big paradox: if you try to extract or transmit psi effects as if they were a message—to predict outcomes or send information—the effect disappears or shifts somewhere else. This is why psychic phenomena are so hard to replicate in the lab. The very act of trying to “use” it breaks the coherence that made it possible.
Third Law: Entanglement Is Stabilized by Causal Possibility
This newer axiom says that psi effects are more likely to stabilise when they occur alongside normal, causal processes. If there is even the possibility that something could have been caused in a conventional way (e.g., a facilitator unintentionally influencing a response), that potential actually makes the entanglement stronger—not weaker. In other words, psi and causality can work together to reinforce coherence.
Why This Matters for Wyrd Technologies
The devices we build at Wyrd—like the Wyrd Light and Wyrdoscope—aren’t measuring energy or signals. They’re tuned to detect subtle shifts in order within randomness, which tend to show up when systems (including people) enter states of coherence.
For example:
- The Wyrdoscope might show a spike during a group ritual or emotional climax.
- The Wyrd Light may reflect a subtle change when someone is deeply aligned in intention.
These patterns can emerge even when using stored random data, because, as MPI explains, the coherence is not about cause and effect—it’s about meaningful relationships across time and context.
Our technologies are designed not to force or manipulate these effects, but to mirror them when the right relational field arises. They work best not when you’re trying to make something happen, but when you’re fully present in a moment that matters.
A Science of Living Systems
MPI invites us into a new kind of science—not one based on control and repeatability, but on coherence, context, and meaning. It doesn’t throw out the laws of physics, but extends the logic of quantum theory into the realm of human experience.
For Wyrd, this model is more than a theory. It’s a map for designing technologies that honour the mystery, and a guide for creating conditions where the improbable becomes visible.
In a world increasingly focused on measurement and control, MPI reminds us that some things can only be known through participation.
Want to go deeper? Check out our articles on telepathy and MPI or Wyrd Event Design.
Key References on MPI and GQT
- Lucadou, W. von. (1995, 2015). The Model of Pragmatic Information (MPI).
A foundational paper describing the MPI and its grounding in GQT principles.
Available on ResearchGate - Lucadou, W. von, Römer, H., & Walach, H. (2007). Synchronistic Phenomena as Entanglement Correlations in Generalized Quantum Theory.
Explores the application of GQT to synchronistic and psi-like phenomena.
Available at hartmannroemer.de - Atmanspacher, H., Römer, H., & Walach, H. (2002). Weak Quantum Theory: Complementarity and Entanglement in Physics and Beyond.
Establishes the foundation of GQT as a generalization of quantum mechanics suitable for systems outside of physics.
Link via Springer - Tressoldi, P. (2007). Entanglement Correlations and the Failure of Classical Models in Parapsychology.
Discusses how GQT and MPI can resolve long-standing issues in psi research.
PDF source - Psi Encyclopedia Entry – Walter von Lucadou
Overview of Lucadou’s work, including MPI and its roots in GQT.
Psi Encyclopedia – SPR