Research Program / Claims / thought-11
The self can send out fragments of itself for projection; these projections may or may not be structured personal identities, but their continuation depends on the whole self.
自我可以发送自身的碎片进行投射,这些投射可能是也可能不是结构化的个性化身份,但它们的存续依赖于整个自我。
Concept thought · Domain Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence · ontological claim · 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
Approximately 150 participants, of whom about 50 self-report being able to repeatedly produce projection experiences; each with 6 sessions over 12–18 months. Randomly use synchronous/asynchronous sensorimotor feedback, record felt position and sense of presence, and have participants report randomly generated four-choice targets in a separate room, with targets hidden from on-site personnel and raters. Preregister objective hit rates, experience intensity, and their relationship; if independent information acquisition emerges, cross-compare performance during source wakefulness, sleep, and attentional shifts. The latter only tests activity dependence and cannot directly prove ontological continuation dependence.
Suggested paper title
Sensorimotor Manipulation of Self-Location and Blinded Remote-Target Identification
What it would overturn
If target information beyond all known sensory channels is reliably obtained, this would revise the hypothesis that self-location changes are internal brain-representation changes without increasing distal information acquisition.
Candidate labs / funders
Olaf Blanke,洛桑联邦理工学院 Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience:[主页](https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lnco/index-html/blanke-lab-team/olaf-blanke-3/); Institute of Noetic Sciences,开展隐藏目标和异常信息获取相关研究:[项目](https://noetic.org/blog/ganzfeld-study/)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Continuation depends on the whole self' adds one more condition beyond mere out-of-body experience, but it does not define whether dependence is on wakefulness, brain activity, memory, or life; currently no unique experimental prediction can be derived from the text.
Note
Body ownership illusions, presence sensations, and depersonalization cannot automatically serve as evidence for projected fragments; objective information or physical effects must be independently tested.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim thought-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/thought-11