Research Program / Claims / you-create-your-own-reality-1
The inner atmosphere automatically and unconditionally projects itself as the external physical form and world, so any external change must first change the inner atmosphere.
内在氛围自动无条件地投射为外在物理形象与世界，因此任何外在改变必须先改变内在氛围。
Concept you create your own reality · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contradicted
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
A pre-registered crossover experiment with approximately 400 participants, independently randomizing emotion induction and computer-controlled external stimulus changes; while participants cannot know the stimulus schedule in advance, continuously record subjective emotion, physiological indicators, stimulus changes measured by photoelectric probes, and perceptual reports, with a project duration of 6 months. Test whether external physical changes can precede and occur independently of measurable internal changes; additionally, set up a condition with distal isolated instrument monitoring after emotion induction to test for effects beyond known physical channels. This design can refute the operationalized version of 'internal change must come first' but cannot prove that all reality is generated by consciousness.
Suggested paper title
Temporal and Causal Dissociations Between Affective State and External Physical Change: A Preregistered Randomized Study
What it would overturn
If the full strong claim holds, it would overturn the causal independence assumption that external physical events can occur independently of the observer's prior emotional changes.
Candidate labs / funders
Tor D. Wager，达特茅斯学院认知与情感神经科学实验室; Johannes Haushofer，经济干预与心理福祉研究; Jeremy Shapiro，随机现金转移研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The claim that it is 'automatic, unconditional, and any change must first occur internally' is stronger than placebo or predictive processing theories and is easier to be falsified by counterexamples; however, 'inner atmosphere' lacks an independent measurement definition, and if one arbitrarily appeals to unmeasurable subconscious processes, it loses falsifiability.
Note
The full text is rated according to the complete claim, and similar psychological effects are not treated as ontological evidence; 'untested' means that no direct test was found in this search, not that no one globally studies it; all sample sizes are planned magnitudes, and formal studies must calculate power based on minimal meaningful effects, measurement error, and clustering structure; 'who' indicates research proximity rather than endorsement of these claims.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim you-create-your-own-reality-1, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/you-create-your-own-reality-1