Research Program / Claims / personal-reality-1
Physical reality is formed and maintained within the mental realm, energized by inner psychological experience.
物理现实是在精神领域中形成并维持的，由内在的心理体验所激发。
Concept personal reality · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · 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
The original ontology does not specify observable differences and cannot be directly adjudicated. One may first test supplementary question 3: approximately 240 participants, two centers, randomly given different explanatory frameworks, viewing the same ambiguous film and completing a near-threshold perception task; record fMRI, eye movement, belief ratings, and perceptual discrimination; pre-register default mode network–sensory cortex connectivity and mediation models; retest after 4 weeks; total duration 12 months. Even if positive, this only supports that belief modulates perceptual construction; external physical effects must be tested separately according to item 5.
Suggested paper title
Prior Beliefs Modulate Default Mode–Sensory Network Coupling During Ambiguous Perception: A Pre-registered Multicenter Study
What it would overturn
If it is proven that mental activity can generate external matter after excluding known physical channels, it would challenge the assumption of physical causal closure.
Candidate labs / funders
Uri Hasson，Princeton University，Hasson Laboratory; Albert R. Powers III，Yale School of Medicine，Powers Laboratory
Specificity of Seth's formulation
This claim is broader than the hypothesis that beliefs affect perception, but it does not provide independent measurements, operational laws, or effect sizes for the mental realm, so it does not yield more specific distinguishable predictions.
Note
This review judges the grade as a whole based on the original claim; 'untested' means that no direct test was found this time and does not prove that no one has ever studied it; DOIs have been verified through publisher, PubMed, or institutional paper pages, and it is not claimed that a complete per-item Crossref API verification has been performed; the experimental sample sizes are planned magnitudes and require separate power analysis; default mode network evidence involves information processing and cannot be interpreted as unconscious transformation of physical energy.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim personal-reality-1, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/personal-reality-1