Research Program / Claims / alternate-focus-3

Consciousness merely pretends to obey the idea of time; it can detach from time and perceive events from different centuries instantaneously.

意识只是假装服从时间的观念，可以脱离时间瞬间感知不同世纪的事件

Concept alternate focus · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · ontological claim · 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)

seth-speaks §19

Adjudicating experiment

Cross-century historical part: approximately 200 practitioners and 200 matched controls judge four-alternative details from third-party-held, unpublished historical archive details that cannot be inferred by common sense, 100 trials per person; archivists, experimenters, and scorers are isolated, target difficulty matched, pre-register leakage audit. Also include a future condition where targets are randomly generated only after reports are submitted. Project 18-24 months with independent replication; this can only test anomalous information acquisition, not prove 'detachment from time,' nor can it directly test future centuries in the short term.

Suggested paper title

Blinded Identification of Concealed Historical Information and Prospectively Randomized Targets During Attentional Refocusing

What it would overturn

If reliable identification of targets randomly generated after reports occurs, it would challenge the assumption that 'after excluding information leakage, current reports and future random targets are conditionally independent.'

Candidate labs / funders

Zoltán Kekecs：Transparent Psi Project相关研究; [University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/)：异常体验与能力研究; [BIAL Foundation](https://30years.bialfoundation.com/en/grants-for-scientific-research/grants)：心理生理学与超心理学研究资助

Specificity of Seth's formulation

'Different centuries' is stronger than general mental time travel but lacks target selection, accuracy, or reproducible conditions; vividness of imagined historical scenes cannot substitute for factual accuracy.

Note

The original assertion's instantaneous cross-century perception has not been directly verified; weaker short-term precognition studies are contested, and negative replications constrain specific paradigms without logically excluding all future paradigms.

Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events — Daryl Bem；Patrizio Tressoldi；Thomas Rabeyron；Michael Duggan (2016), F1000Research
相邻争议证据：汇总90项实验报告小效应，但并非跨世纪感知研究，且不能单凭汇总结果排除研究选择和分析偏差。[论文第二版](https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7177.2)
Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project — Zoltán Kekecs 等 (2023), Royal Society Open Science
严格透明的多实验室复现得到49.89%的猜测成功率，机会水平为50%，未复现所测试的未来目标预测效应。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191375)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim alternate-focus-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/alternate-focus-3