Research Program / Claims / distortion-3
Distortion arises from the failure of the original action to repeat itself, and this failure constitutes the basis of new reality.
扭曲源于原行动重复自身的失败，这种失败构成新现实的基础。
Concept distortion · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · ontological claim · 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
At present, direct adjudication is impossible: one must first define 'original action,' 'replication failure,' and 'new reality,' and provide predictions distinct from stochastic processes or dynamical models. If temporarily reduced to a mechanism of behavioral innovation, 200 people could be recruited to complete repetitive drawing and action-sequence tasks, 4 times each at 1-week intervals, manipulating replication errors via feedback perturbations, predicting the emergence and maintenance of novel structures, project duration 6 months; this experiment only tests the relationship between error and behavioral innovation.
Suggested paper title
Replication Error and the Emergence of Novel Structure in Repeated Action
What it would overturn
The original text has not specified a scientific hypothesis that can be overturned; only by providing new physically observable quantities could it challenge the assumption that system evolution is described by established dynamics plus their stochastic terms.
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Presents an origin narrative without variables, time scales, or counterfactual conditions; cannot be considered more specific than theories of variation, chaos, or symmetry breaking merely because of similar wording.
Note
No laboratory was confirmed to directly study this ontological assertion; successful experiments on behavioral innovation, evolutionary variation, or self-organization alone cannot prove the ontological origin of 'new reality.'
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim distortion-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/distortion-3