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Psychological time experiments enhance mobility and the capacity for subconscious manipulation within the electrical universe.

心理时间实验会增强在电性宇宙中的移动性与潜意识操纵能力。

Concept psychological time · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Approximately 300 adults would be randomized to three groups—psychological time practice, visual imagery training, and relaxation—for eight weeks. At weeks 0, 4, and 8 and at a three-month follow-up, measures would include VVIQ scores, mental rotation response times and accuracy, imagery priming effects, visual and auditory temporal order judgments, and the cross-modal temporal binding window. Training credibility would be matched, expectancy measured, and primary endpoints and procedures for multiple comparisons pre-registered. Approximately 120 participants would join a substudy of virtual self-location and EEG. The project would take 12–18 months. “Subconscious manipulation” must be separately defined as a specific process outside conscious control; ordinary improvements in imagery cannot serve as a substitute.
Suggested paper title
Imagery Vividness, Mental Rotation, and Multisensory Temporal Binding Following Internally Focused Training
What it would overturn
If training produces transfer across tasks that is independent of expectancy, this would revise the hypothesis that its effects are restricted to subjective reports and trained tasks. A new mechanism of movement would be implicated only if additional physical coupling were discovered.
Candidate labs / funders
Joel Pearson;Future Minds Lab,University of New South Wales; Olaf Blanke;Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Antoine Lutz;Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon
Specificity of Seth's formulation
“Mobility,” “electrical universe,” and “subconscious manipulation” lack units, coordinates, or task definitions and are less specific than existing models of imagery and bodily self-location.
Note
Related cross-modal research found that a visual temporal order bias following meditation training did not transfer to a condition with auditory interference, so generalized sensory enhancement cannot be assumed. VVIQ scores, mental rotation, and involuntary processing should also be interpreted separately. [Cross-modal study](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01937) [Imagery laboratory](https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/joel-pearson)
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications — Joel Pearson、Thomas Naselaris、Emily A. Holmes、Stephen M. Kosslyn (2015), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    邻近证据:心理意象可通过行为与脑成像研究,为“移动感”和意象控制提供可测替代指标,但不支持在电性宇宙中客观移动。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.003)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychological-time-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychological-time-11