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During a spontaneous state, Jane felt that her body was weightless, her handwriting became extremely small and unlike her own, and the content she wrote was disorganized.

珍曾在自发状态中感到身体失重，笔迹变得极小且不像自己，写下的内容混乱。

Concept automatic writing · Domain Belief, Ritual, and Mind–Body Effects · case evidence · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Observe approximately 80 participants reporting similar experiences and 80 matched controls for six weeks, with eight sessions per participant. Simultaneously collect digital writing-tablet data, electromyography, and real-time ratings of bodily lightness, comparing ordinary writing, automatic writing, and deliberately reduced handwriting size. Prespecify character height, pen pressure, acceleration, jerk, pauses, stylistic distance, and textual coherence, and use copying of identical text to control for content differences. Analyze genuinely spontaneous events separately from experimentally induced events, and conduct separate blinded size measurements of historical manuscripts.
Suggested paper title
Body-Lightness Experiences, Handwriting Size, and Movement Dynamics During Spontaneous and Suggested Writing
What it would overturn
Subjective lightness accompanied by handwriting changes would not overturn mainstream theory; it would test whether changes in the bodily sense of self are associated with fine motor parameters beyond fatigue and expectancy.
Candidate labs / funders
Quinton Deeley；伦敦国王学院 Cultural and Social Neuroscience Research Group; Schreibmotorik Institut e.V.；上述数字书写动力学论文的合作机构
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The simultaneous specification of lightness, tiny handwriting, and disorganized content provides a measurable combination of co-occurring features. Without an occurrence rate, temporal sequence, or effect size, it does not yet constitute a strong prediction.
Note
Digital writing tablets can capture pen pressure and position in real time and allow acceleration to be calculated, but this search found no established kinematic marker specific to automatic writing. Differentiation amplifies noise, so filtering rules must be pre-registered. “Feeling weightless” must not be reformulated as an actual decrease in body weight.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim automatic-writing-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/automatic-writing-12