Research Program / Claims / apparitions-10
Science equates its own framework with rationality, causing bias; it should allow spontaneity and directly accept inner sensory data.
科学将自身框架等同于理性，造成偏见化，应允许自发性并直接接受内在感官数据。
Concept apparitions · Domain Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence · methodological suggestion · 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
Rewrite the normative suggestion as a testable researcher bias hypothesis: approximately 400 researchers randomly review research abstracts that are identical in data and methods but differ only in theoretical labels, comparing quality ratings, evidence judgments, and funding willingness; duration about 6 months. Additionally, two independent teams blindly code experience diaries from about 200 people to test whether spontaneous reports predict held-out data. The former tests label bias, the latter tests data value; neither can prove that internal experiences' external interpretations should be directly accepted.
Suggested paper title
Theoretical Framing and Evaluator Bias in the Assessment of Anomalous-Experience Research
What it would overturn
If label manipulation changes evaluations of the same evidence, it would negate the unbiasedness assumption that research evaluation is completely independent of theoretical labels, but would not overturn empirical testing principles.
Candidate labs / funders
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies; Society for Psychical Research
Specificity of Seth's formulation
This is a critique of scientific culture and a normative suggestion without specifying discipline, bias magnitude, or falsifiability conditions; the operationalized label effect is not unique to Seth.
Note
The four-category classification does not fully apply to normative claims; here untested only means the entire suggestion has not been directly validated. Subjective reports can be empirical data, but their explanations regarding the external world still require separate testing. [SPR's research purpose and peer review scope](https://www.spr.ac.uk/publicationsrecordingswebevents/journal-society-psychical-research).
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim apparitions-10, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/apparitions-10