Research Program / Claims / condensed-time-10
Seth recommends conducting small experiments and psychological time exercises independently to train abilities, and suggests an experiment involving four people holding hands.
赛斯建议自行进行小型实验和心理时间练习以训练能力,并建议四人手拉手实验。
Concept condensed time · Domain Nonlinear Time and Self-Cognition · methodological suggestion · 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 specify whether the training targets timing accuracy, subjective control, or information identification ability. Recruit approximately 320 participants, using 80 four-person groups as the units of randomization, in a 2 × 2 design crossing psychological time exercises versus an active control with holding hands versus no contact. Match the credibility of instructions and practice duration, provide eight weeks of training and four weeks of follow-up, and allow approximately 12 months for the project. Pre-register one primary endpoint, such as timing accuracy on an untrained task; record expectancy and within-group correlations. If information identification is assessed, include a separate task that strictly blocks visual, auditory, and tactile encoding.
Suggested paper title
Effects of Subjective-Time Training and Interpersonal Touch on Timing Performance: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
Only stable acquisition of target information after sensory channels have been blocked would challenge the assumption that “interpersonal information transmission requires an identifiable physical channel.”
Candidate labs / funders
Zoltan Dienes,University of Sussex; University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The four-person group and form of contact provide manipulable conditions, but the “ability” is unspecified, and no effect size, training dose, or transfer prediction is provided.
Note
Self-experimentation can generate hypotheses but cannot replace blinding and controls; controversies in adjacent hypnosis research are insufficient to rate this particular exercise as contested.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim condensed-time-10, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/condensed-time-10