Research Program / Claims / psychic-abilities-9

The scientific presupposition of a dual self is wrong; there is only one self, and without abandoning this idea progress is impossible; research should allow spontaneity and receive inner data uncritically.

科学预设二元自我是错的，只有一个自我，若不放弃无法进展；研究应允许自发性，不加批判接收内在数据。

Concept psychic abilities · Domain Life Motivation and Creative Evolution · methodological suggestion · 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)

early-sessions-1 §25

Adjudicating experiment

The methodological suggestion is rewritten into a testable procedure: approximately 240 people are randomly assigned to either non-judgmental experiential recording training or analytical recording training for 8 weeks with a 1-month follow-up, over a 6–9-month period. Comparisons include report completeness, test–retest consistency, metacognitive calibration, and blinded target identification; interview coders are unaware of group assignment, and target scoring uses independent objective criteria. Spontaneous narration is allowed during experience collection, while the analysis phase maintains equally strict error control.

Suggested paper title

Nonjudgmental Experience Sampling, Metacognitive Calibration, and Target Identification

What it would overturn

Merely improving experiential report quality would not overturn the mainstream hypothesis; if it additionally improves identification of unknown targets, then the hypothesis that 'introspection cannot directly provide external facts lacking sensory sources' would need revision.

Candidate labs / funders

Antoine Lutz：神经现象学; Helané Wahbeh，Institute of Noetic Sciences：混合方法与异常体验; David Acunzo，University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies：催眠与暗示

Specificity of Seth's formulation

'There is only one self' lacks a testable definition; allowing spontaneous reporting is an existing method, and 'receiving uncritically' is feasible only if it refers to the recording stage; if it means treating reports as facts, it does not constitute scientific validation.

Note

Here 'untested' indicates that the overall methodological superiority has not been directly validated, not that consciousness unity is unstudied; 'science must abandon the dual self to progress' misstates the common premises of contemporary research.

Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Guiding the study of brain dynamics by using first-person data: Synchrony patterns correlate with ongoing conscious states during a simple visual task — Antoine Lutz；Jean-Philippe Lachaux；Jacques Martinerie；Francisco J. Varela (2002), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
示范如何将第一人称报告与脑活动关联；支持严谨采集体验数据，不支持免除外部验证。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.032658199)
What is consciousness, and could machines have it? — Stanislas Dehaene；Hakwan Lau；Sid Kouider (2017), Science
区分无意识运算、信息全局可用与自我监控，展示当代认知科学并不必须预设两个实体性的自我。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8871)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychic-abilities-9, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychic-abilities-9