Research Program / Claims / a-1-12
In the A-1-a state, alternative decisions can be actually tested and their effects on the body, psyche, and environment observed, rather than merely imagined.
在A-1-a状态中，可实际试验各种替代决定并观察其对身体、心理及环境的影响，而非仅凭想象。
Concept A-1 state · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · mechanism · 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 300 participants take part in a pre-registered crossover experiment predicting branch-task outcomes under A-1-a, ordinary scenario simulation, and analytical reasoning conditions; each person completes at least 100 trials, totaling about 30,000 trials, over 18 months. Branches include outcomes inferable from cues, plus outcomes generated randomly by an independent server after the report and hidden from participants, using timestamp commitments and blind scoring. Reproducible physical/psychological branch tasks are actually performed at later visits in random order to test prospective prediction; environmental branches are executed and stored entirely by the server. An independent center replicates with about 300 people; whether the claim truly predicts unknown branches must be pre-specified; otherwise post-hoc tests with random targets cannot substitute for the original proposition.
Suggested paper title
Prediction of Unobserved Decision Outcomes During Induced Absorption: A Pre-registered Blinded Test
What it would overturn
Only if unobserved branches that cannot be inferred from known information are still predicted stably would the assumption that 'effective information in scenario simulation comes from prior experience, learning, and current input' be challenged.
Candidate labs / funders
Daniel L. Schacter，Harvard University Schacter Memory Lab，研究未来及反事实模拟：[实验室研究](https://sites.harvard.edu/schacter-memory/home/research/); Institute of Noetic Sciences，开展异常信息及意向相关研究：[研究说明](https://noetic.org/science/premise/)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Actually testing rather than imagining' posits a stronger ontological distinction but provides no observational criterion; if it merely manifests as more vivid imagery, stronger bodily reactions, or better decisions, it still cannot be distinguished from known simulation mechanisms.
Note
All real counterfactual outcomes of the same person at the same moment cannot be observed simultaneously; therefore experiments can only test predictive ability in controlled tasks, not directly verify the existence of alternative realities.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim a-1-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/a-1-12