Research Program / Claims / waking-consciousness-10
If an individual personality is sufficiently flexible and safely changes the focus of consciousness, one can experience a greater range of conscious expression "under ordinary waking conditions," making otherwise unperceived data accessible.
若个体人格足够灵活且安全地改变意识焦点，便能“在通常的醒时条件下”体验到更大范围的意识表达，使其他未感知的数据变得可及。
Concept waking consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · testable prediction · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ 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
Main experiment: about 240 people randomly assigned to 8 weeks of attention flexibility training or expectancy-matched control; test masked recognition, binocular rivalry, d′, and metacognitive efficiency in EEG-confirmed ordinary waking states; retest after 3 months; project about 18 months. For supplementary question 4, conduct a separate pre-registered multicenter dream study: about 200 people, 10 reports each, first lock timestamps of full dream reports, then independently randomly select future-presented targets; use same-pool distractors, blinded ordering, and pre-frozen scoring rules for hierarchical Bayesian analysis; simulate to determine sample size and stopping rules. If target-related cues are presented directly during sleep, this tests sensory processing and dream incorporation, not precognition.
Suggested paper title
Attentional Flexibility and Perceptual Access During Wakefulness: A Pre-Registered Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
Ordinary perceptual gains will not overturn mainstream theory; only obtaining not-yet-generated random information under strictly isolated conditions would challenge the assumption that information acquisition depends on prior physical causal input.
Candidate labs / funders
Olivia Louise Carter，University of Melbourne; Chris A. Roe，异常认知与梦研究; Patrizio E. Tressoldi，异常信息获取研究; Michelle Carr，Université de Montréal
Specificity of Seth's formulation
If it refers to originally ignored sensory information, it largely overlaps with attention training hypotheses; if it refers to information without sensory origin, it has additional predictions, but the text does not clearly distinguish.
Note
The case of foreseeing magazine content cannot exclude prior exposure, selective memory, or post-hoc matching; the supplementary study could be titled "Dream Reports and Subsequently Randomized Targets: A Pre-Registered Multicenter Bayesian Test," which must be registered and reported separately from the waking main experiment.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim waking-consciousness-10, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/waking-consciousness-10