Research Program / Claims / imagination-8

Physical tools can induce imagination to move along personal memories, but cannot force it to engage in conceptual thought.

物理工具能诱使想象力沿个人记忆移动，但无法强迫其进行概念性思维。

Concept imagination · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · 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)

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Adjudicating experiment

Multi-center recruitment of approximately 40–60 patients with intracranial electrodes implanted for clinical needs; random alternating stimulation and sham stimulation, comparing autobiographical recall, concept combination, and task-free rest; blinded rating of recall detail, semantic combination, and spontaneous novel concepts. Each person undergoes 2–4 brief sessions, project duration 18–24 months. Pre-specify the distinction between "changing the probability of concept generation" and "reliably eliciting concepts in the absence of relevant task instructions"; the former is easy to test, while the latter is closer to the claim of forced generation.