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Claims database
4199 claims; 789 reviewed against the literature; 654 fundable. Claims are AI paraphrases of Seth\'s statements (not verbatim), each traceable to book and session. English fields are machine-translated; the text search runs on the Chinese original. Programmatic access: Data & API.
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| Claim | Concept / domain | Type | Test. | Status | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consciousness itself does not change; what changes is only the direction or level toward which consciousness points, not the essence of consciousness itself. early-sessions-4 §175 · Conscious Access and Metacognitive Capacity Across Internal and External Attentional State… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The inner self is an inward focus, the outer self an outward focus; the two form two sides of an action sphere. early-sessions-4 §153 · Internal and External Attention in Self-Related Cognition: Testing Continuous and Multidim… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Events reflect from any conscious layer to all other layers; each layer realizes the event according to its characteristics. seth-speaks §19 · Cross-System Propagation of Event Information Under Perceptual Masking and Attentional Loa… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In alternating focus, you can discard the fundamental assumptions that usually guide, control, and limit perception. seth-speaks §19 · Effects of Attentional Refocusing on Perceptual Prior Weighting: A Pre-registered Expectan… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Consciousness merely pretends to obey the idea of time; it can detach from time and perceive events from different centuries instantaneously. seth-speaks §19 · Blinded Identification of Concealed Historical Information and Prospectively Randomized Ta… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Any conscious layer can be used as normally functioning consciousness; reality is viewed from that particular standpoint. seth-speaks §19 · Functional Capacity Across Experimentally Defined Conscious States: A Pre-registered Nonin… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The fluctuation frequency of normal waking consciousness is 15 to 50 times per hour, depending on individual activity. seth-speaks §19 · Rates and Durations of Mind-Blanking Episodes Across Rest and Task Conditions: A Pre-regis… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| In A-1 state, consciousness can enter another person's body and heal it, and can also perceive the state of its own physical body image. seth-speaks §19; seth-speaks §574 · Attentional Refocusing, Bodily Information Accuracy, and Wound Repair: A Pre-registered Bl… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| Multiple alternative presents exist; your attention is focused on only one, and when attention wavers you may glimpse another. seth-speaks §19; seth-speaks §575 · Attentional Switching and Dissociative Traits in Temporal Source Monitoring Across Virtual… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Science is limited by its own tools; instruments convert data according to familiar patterns, making scientists prisoners of their instruments, unable to access… dreams-evolution-1 §884 · Measurement and Analysis Constraints in Multimodal Studies of Conscious Experience: A Pre-… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Continuous sleep exceeding six to eight hours is detrimental to health; segmented sleep (four to six hours at night plus a nap after dinner) is more beneficial. seth-speaks §532 · Split Versus Consolidated Sleep: A Randomized Crossover Study of Cortisol Rhythms, Cogniti… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | contradicted | 4 |