Research Program / Claims / a-1-3

In A-1, the user is temporarily free from bodily stress and can use this freedom to reduce bodily stress; seemingly unsolvable problems often become solvable, self-suggestion is far more effective, and form-formation is easier and more active.

在A-1中,使用者暂时免受身体压力,并可用此自由去减轻身体压力;看似无法解决的问题常能解决,自我暗示有效得多,形相形成更容易且更有活动性。

Concept A-1 state · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Approximately 300 participants undergo a pre-registered randomized crossover experiment where, under A-1 induction, expectation-matched relaxation, and normal wakefulness, they receive identical self-analgesic suggestions or neutral instructions; each person has 6 visits separated by at least 48 hours, total period 12–18 months. The primary test is a 'state × suggestion' interaction, pre-quantifying 'far more effective' as an additional analgesic effect of at least 0.3 standard deviations; also measure heat pain threshold, fixed-stimulus pain ratings, HRV, electrodermal activity, and respiration. Problem-solving accuracy and visual imagery vividness serve as independent secondary endpoints with multiple-comparison correction; control hypnotic susceptibility, expectation, and breathing rate.
Suggested paper title
Does Induced Absorption Amplify Autosuggestion? A Pre-registered Crossover Study of Pain and Autonomic Regulation
What it would overturn
If stable gains remain after matching expectation, relaxation level, and susceptibility, this would revise the hypothesis that 'the induction has no independent gain on suggestibility'; ordinary analgesia and stress reduction themselves do not overturn mainstream theories.
Candidate labs / funders
Devin B. Terhune,伦敦国王学院 Awareness & Modulation Lab:[实验室](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/awareness-modulation-lab); David Spiegel,斯坦福大学:[学者主页](https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-spiegel)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Far more effective' provides a comparative direction but no effect threshold; 'free from bodily stress' and 'problems often solvable' do not specify stress types, tasks, or success criteria.
Note
Experiential stress reduction, autonomic changes, and task performance should be reported separately; improvement in one does not automatically support the others, and HRV is not a single stress meter.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim a-1-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/a-1-3