Research Program / Claims / time-1
Time can be manipulated, used at will, and examined.
时间可以被操控、随意使用并加以检视。
Concept time · Domain Nonlinear Time and Self-Cognition · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable
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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
First, operationalize “manipulation” as whether intention can change objective clock rates: approximately 100 practitioners would complete acceleration, deceleration, and neutral conditions in a randomized crossover design over four consecutive weeks, with approximately 20 sessions per person. Measure the difference between two independent precision clocks in a shielded environment, recording temperature, electromagnetic fields, vibration, and gravitational potential. Blind experimenters and analysts, and pre-register the direction of drift and the minimum effect. Record subjective time estimates separately; they cannot substitute for clock-rate measures. This experiment can adjudicate only this operationalized version.
Suggested paper title
A Pre-registered Test of Intentional Modulation of Clock Rates Under Controlled Environmental Conditions
What it would overturn
If intention reproducibly changes clock rates under fixed physical conditions, this would revise the assumption that clock rates are determined by local physical conditions and spacetime trajectories without requiring an additional intention variable.
Candidate labs / funders
Jun Ye，JILA，精密原子钟研究; Marc Wittmann，Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health，主观时间研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The claim specifies neither the object, method, magnitude, nor limits of manipulation and is less specific than relativistic predictions of clock rates; additional operational definitions are required to yield distinguishable predictions.
Note
The entire review evaluates the paraphrases supplied by the user; the original Seth passages have not been verified. “untested” indicates that this search found no direct test of the original proposition, not that no one worldwide has studied it. The evidence field explicitly distinguishes related research from direct support. All sample sizes are planning estimates, and power must be calculated using the minimum effect and measurement noise.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim time-1, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/time-1