Research Program / Claims / apparitions-11
Seth suggested that Jane and Rob conduct experiments at fixed times twice weekly, and could use tools such as pendulums.
赛斯建议珍和罗每周两次固定时间实验,并可使用钟摆等工具。
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
Approximately 240 participants undergo 8-week experiments twice weekly, using a 2×2 randomized design of fixed vs. random timing × pendulum vs. button responses, with equal total sessions. Each session answers 20 two-choice targets pre-generated by an independent server, unknown to experimenters and participants; preregistered accuracy is the primary endpoint, while hand movement, expectancy, practice, and sleep are recorded. Recruitment and analysis together take about 6 months. To prove twice weekly is superior to other frequencies, a frequency comparison with matched total practice would be needed.
Suggested paper title
Practice Scheduling and Ideomotor Response Modes in a Preregistered Blinded Target-Identification Task
What it would overturn
Only sustained above-chance identification of hidden targets under blind conditions would challenge the assumption that pendulum answers do not provide target knowledge beyond already obtained information.
Candidate labs / funders
Society for Psychical Research; David Acunzo,University of Virginia School of Medicine, Ray Westphal Neuroimaging Laboratory
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Twice weekly is a clear, reproducible operational suggestion, but no comparison conditions or expected benefits are given; using a pendulum is not unique.
Note
'The suggestion was made' is a historical fact in the literature; modern experiments can only test the effect of the suggestion. Fixed timing improving compliance or practice performance does not equal validating anomalous perception.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim apparitions-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/apparitions-11