Research Program / Claims / a-1-8

Science equates rational thinking with the entire reference framework; other thinking perspectives are regarded as irrational; thought is over-specialized and inflexible, and science is split into disciplines that do not integrate with each other.

科学将理性思考等同于整个参考框架,其他思考角度被视为非理性;思想过度专门化、缺乏弹性,科学分裂为互不整合的学科。

Concept A-1 state · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · methodological suggestion · 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)
  • magical-approach
Adjudicating experiment
Create a transnational scientometric dataset covering at least 100,000 grant applications and papers over a 20-year window, separately measuring specialization, knowledge integration, and funding barriers; also recruit about 1,000 reviewers who are randomly shown research abstracts identical in evidence quality but whose discovery pathway is described as analytical, intuitive, or imagery-inspired, and measure rating differences. Pre-register discipline, career stage, and institution stratification, period 24 months; use quasi-experiments or institutional changes to identify causality; citation correlations alone cannot establish thought rigidity.
Suggested paper title
Disciplinary Boundaries and Discovery-Method Bias in Scientific Evaluation: A Cross-National Study
What it would overturn
If intuition-sourced research is systematically penalized after controlling for evidence quality, this would refute the idealized assumption that 'reviewers evaluate only evidence and methods, unaffected by discovery-pathway labels.'
Candidate labs / funders
Santa Fe Institute,开展跨学科复杂系统及协作研究:[研究介绍](https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/sfi-informs-construct-interdisciplinary-work); Giacomo Livan,跨学科资助表现研究作者:[论文与机构信息](https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00769-z)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
This is a broad science-sociology critique; it specifies no country, discipline, period, or acceptable degree of integration; one cannot derive the entire science's cognitive framework from localized funding barriers.
Note
'Contested' applies only to the measurable institutional descriptions; science allowing intuition to generate hypotheses is a different issue from requiring evidence to test them.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim a-1-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/a-1-8