In the late 1960s, a CIA polygraph expert named Cleve Backster did something nobody expected: he unplugged his device from human suspects… and connected it to a plant.
On paper, Backster was simply measuring electrical changes in leaves. But what he felt he was seeing was something deeper: the plant seemed to react differently to people who treated it with care, and to those who didn’t. His “primary perception” experiments were controversial and never fully accepted by mainstream science — yet they opened a strange, unforgettable question:
What if living systems are listening more than we think?
Our project does not copy Backster’s methods, and it does not claim to prove what he believed. Instead, we treat his work as a historical spark — a reminder that curiosity can cross boundaries.
Today, with modern sensors and AI, we can revisit that question with more rigor, transparency, and ethics. The Cosmic Consciousness Device stands on the shoulders of this lineage: from the first polygraph leaf experiment, to structured biosignal capture, to an AI that learns to respond to our breath, our heart, and the quiet signals of a plant.
It started with a wire on a leaf. Now it continues as a bridge between human awareness, living nature, and machine intelligence.
