Research Program / Claims / awareness-1

Within the personality there exists an 'inner self-awareness part' that knows its own origin, receives all internal data, maintains contact with the entity, and directly guides important functions that appear automatic or subconsciously controlled.

人格中存在一个“内在自我意识部分”,它知道自己的起源,接收所有内部数据、与存有保持联系,并直接指引看似自动化或潜意识控制的重要功能。

Concept awareness · 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
First operationalize the 'inner self' as the ability to accurately read states across organs and to actively regulate physiological functions under no-feedback conditions; approximately 150 people complete heartbeat, respiratory resistance, gastric sensation discrimination, and confidence tasks, with continuous recording of ECG, respiration, skin conductance, and comparison between autonomous regulation and sham-instruction conditions, each person 3 sessions, project duration 6 months; replication with an independent sample of about 60. Only information access and regulatory abilities can be tested; 'origin' and 'entity' require separate independently verifiable definitions.
Suggested paper title
Interoceptive Metacognition and Voluntary Autonomic Regulation Across Physiological Domains
What it would overturn
If a unified conscious controller with independent causal efficacy is found, it would revise the hypothesis that 'autonomous homeostatic regulation can be explained by distributed neural and endocrine feedback mechanisms.'
Candidate labs / funders
Anil K. Seth,University of Sussex 的 Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science:[研究中心](https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-centre-for-consciousness-science/); Norman A. S. Farb,University of Toronto Mississauga:[研究方向](https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/psychology/people/norman-farb)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Receiving all internal data' is stronger than existing interoception theories but does not specify readable data, precision, or failure conditions; 'knowing origin, contacting entity' currently has no distinguishable operational predictions.
Note
The full table is graded on the complete claim; evidence for adjacent mechanisms does not automatically support the whole; untested indicates that this online search found no direct test, not proof that no one has studied it; DOI verified via journal or PubMed pages, not claiming per-item Crossref calls; sample sizes and durations are planned magnitudes, formal studies require pre-registration and power analysis based on minimal effects of interest.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain — Anil K. Seth;Karl J. Friston (2016), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
    理论综述提出内感受预测与自主调节机制,但没有证明一个知道自身起源、接收全部内部数据的意识主体。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0007)

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