Research Program / Claims / intuition-4

If the ego is trained to be sufficiently flexible, it will accept knowledge from the subconscious and other broader selves.

若自我训练得足够灵活,它会接受来自潜意识及其他更广自我的知识。

Concept intuition · Domain Intuitive–Rational Cognitive Integration · 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)
Adjudicating experiment
Covering Supplementary Question 4: approximately 600 participants first complete cognitive flexibility questionnaires, an active open-mindedness scale, task switching, and reversal learning tests, then are randomly assigned to 8 weeks of flexibility training or an equal-time active control. Before and after training, they perform probability predictions with known cues and random predictions whose targets are generated only after response; two tasks with different hypotheses are pre-registered, using latent variable and multilevel models controlling for intelligence, domain expertise, expectancy, and baseline accuracy, with a 4-week retest. Questionnaire correlations test individual differences; randomized training tests causality; the two must not be conflated.
Suggested paper title
Cognitive Flexibility Training and Intuitive Accuracy Across Learnable and Random Prediction Tasks
What it would overturn
Only if flexibility training improves accuracy for as-yet-ungenerated random targets would it challenge the assumption that "flexibility improves judgment through existing information processing rather than through new information sources."
Candidate labs / funders
Joel Pearson,新南威尔士大学 Future Minds Lab; Barbara A. Mellers,宾夕法尼亚大学; Uriel Haran:开放思维与判断研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
"Sufficiently flexible" has no threshold, and "accepting" does not distinguish experience, conviction, and accurate knowledge; it cannot be verified by simply believing oneself to be more intuitive.
Note
Implicit association tests usually measure relative associative strength between specific concepts, not a generic "self-flexibility" indicator; if used, construct validity must be separately established.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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