Research Program / Claims / intellect-7

Science relies only on external senses and tools, but tools have artificial distortion effects.

科学只依赖外在感官及工具,但工具具有人为扭曲效应。

Concept intellect · Domain Intuitive–Rational Cognitive Integration · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contradicted

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)
  • dreams-projections §2
Adjudicating experiment
Addressing question 3: On publicly available task fMRI data from approximately 1000 participants, pre-register a pipeline comparison; additionally collect approximately 100 participants with low head motion and instructed head motion for repeated scans; compare motion parameter regression, ICA denoising, aCompCor, and scrubbing combinations, distinguishing between acquisition-time motion correction and post-processing confound control. Add simulations with known effects and permutation null models to assess false-positive rates, power at equal false-positive rates, effect bias, and test-retest reliability, over approximately 12 months; EEG extensions require separate evaluation of eye movements, EMG, reference, and filtering.
Suggested paper title
Motion Correction and Denoising Choices Alter Statistical Power and Reliability in Task fMRI
What it would overturn
If stable pipeline-dependent biases are found, this would revise the specific hypothesis that specified analysis results are robust to reasonable acquisition and preprocessing choices.
Candidate labs / funders
Theodore D. Satterthwaite; Jonathan D. Power; University of Pennsylvania — Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Instruments may distort' has support and predates this claim as a measurement-science commonplace; no specific instrument type, distortion direction, or magnitude is specified, providing no unique prediction.
Note
This item is a mixed proposition: instrumental and processing distortion is partly supported, while 'science studies only external senses' is contradicted; the overall label targets the latter. Nearby team: [PennLINC](https://www.pennlinc.io/Publications).
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim intellect-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/intellect-7