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Prophetic or extrasensory information must be broken down by the mind into electrical impulses, then translated by the brain into psychological symbols; this process necessarily introduces distortion.

预言或超感知信息需由心分解为电性冲动，再经脑转译为心理符号，此过程必然引入扭曲。

Concept channeling · Domain Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity · 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 200 channelers and 200 controls, each with 400–600 balanced binary prediction trials; targets are generated by an independent random system only after answers are locked, with EEG, confidence, and reaction time recorded, over 12–18 months. Hierarchical signal detection models estimate d′ and criterion c separately, compared with ordinary sensory tasks. Pre-register time windows, decoding methods, and error confusion matrices; abnormal information is tested by target-label permutation and independent laboratory replication; routine pre-report brain activity cannot be taken as evidence of transmission.
Suggested paper title
Sensitivity, Response Bias, and Electrophysiological Encoding in a Pre-registered Future-Target Prediction Task
What it would overturn
If it can be demonstrated that information about a future random target enters neural encoding before target generation, this would challenge the hypothesis that, after cue isolation, current neural signals are statistically independent of future independent random targets.
Candidate labs / funders
Arnaud Delorme，Institute of Noetic Sciences相关研究者; Oliver J. Robinson，University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; Zoltan Kekecs，Transparent Psi Project研究者
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Proposes a sequence chain but does not define a brain-independent "mind," the source of electrical impulses, or a minimum amplitude for inevitable distortion; ordinary neural encoding can produce the same appearances.
Note
For question 2: signal detection theory applies, but verifiable target labels are required; d′ above zero only indicates that task information is discriminable, leakage must be excluded, and changes in c cannot be counted as improvement in extrasensory ability.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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