Research Program / Claims / esp-4

Consciousness precedes material existence and continuously forms physical reality, which constitutes the operational basis of ESP.

意识先于物质存在,并持续形成物质实相,这构成了ESP的运作基础。

Concept esp · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · 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)
  • esp-power §3
Adjudicating experiment
'Consciousness precedes matter' has no distinguishable operational definition and cannot be directly adjudicated. If the claimant additionally commits that 'intention can alter the outcome distribution of a physically uncontacted device,' a pre-registered study can be conducted across three laboratories with about 1000 participants, each completing multiple intention and neutral conditions; independently isolated quantum random devices run with no-human control, auditing thermal drift, electromagnetic interference, software, and data selection, with statistics by participant and device batch; over 12–18 months. This only tests intention effects, not cosmic ontological priority.
Suggested paper title
Intentional Modulation of Quantum Random Outputs: A Pre-registered Multilaboratory Study
What it would overturn
If, under unchanged measurement settings and after excluding physical coupling, intention still systematically alters outcomes, it will challenge the hypothesis that 'quantum measurement probabilities do not depend on observer intention.'
Candidate labs / funders
Bial Foundation,相关心理生理学与超心理学资助; University of Virginia School of Medicine,Division of Perceptual Studies,相关意识研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Low; no mapping rule for how consciousness forms matter or which outcomes would not occur is provided, so it cannot be empirically distinguished from various forms of idealism or neutral monism.
Note
'Observation' in quantum experiments typically refers to the physical measurement process and does not require a conscious human watching; author Anil K. Seth is unrelated to the Seth material.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim esp-4, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/esp-4