Research Program / Claims / altered-states-of-consciousness-5

In out-of-body experiences, consciousness alters space-time relationships; out-of-body time is 'free time,' and one does not age in this state, with effects differing according to certain principles.

出体体验中意识对时空关系改变，出体时间是“自由时间”，且在此状态下不会老化，其效果随某些原则而不同。

Concept altered states of consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · testable prediction · 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 100 participants in a randomized cross-over trial of synchronous visuo-tactile bodily illusion, asynchronous control, and ordinary relaxation; measure temporal bisection, longer-duration reproduction, bodily localization, ECG, respiration, and HRV during controlled breathing; each person 3 sessions, duration 6 months; compare relationship between experience intensity and time distortion. Stopping aging must be separately defined: minute-scale lacks a validated whole-body aging measurement tool; after pilot study, plan a follow-up of 2-5 years with hundreds of frequent experiencers and matched controls, measuring biological age and functional indicators at multiple time points, but such design can only test association with aging rate, not prove instantaneous suspension of aging during experience.
Suggested paper title
Cardiorespiratory Dynamics and Temporal Judgments During Experimentally Induced Changes in Self-Location
What it would overturn
If actual proof of biological aging cessation during experience occurs, it would challenge the assumption that 'biological aging proceeds continuously with physiological processes and does not pause due to disappearance of subjective time sense.'
Candidate labs / funders
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience，Olaf Blanke; Marc Wittmann; Cornell University — Affect and Cognition Lab，Adam K. Anderson、Eve De Rosa
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'No aging' appears to be a strong prediction but does not specify aging indicators or applicable principles; 'free time' also lacks quantifiable time relationships.
Note
Corresponds to supplementary question 2: heart rate, respiration, and HRV can test autonomic changes and time perception but cannot indirectly confirm cessation of aging; if 'no aging' refers only to nonphysical consciousness, it lacks a measurable object.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim altered-states-of-consciousness-5, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/altered-states-of-consciousness-5