Research Program / Claims / apparitions-3
The construction of apparitions is divided into primary and secondary types, but the construction method is exactly the same.
幻影的构建分为主级与次级两类，但构建方法完全相同。
Concept apparitions · Domain Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence · 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
First define criteria for 'primary' and 'secondary' without looking at results. Test blind coding consistency with about 100 independent interviews, then recruit about 150 individuals who can repeatedly report relevant experiences, follow for 6 months with at least 4 measurements each; compare eliciting conditions, psychophysical parameters, and EEG representations between the two types, with preregistered equivalence bounds. Failure to find differences cannot be interpreted as identical mechanisms.
Suggested paper title
Operational Classification and Mechanistic Equivalence Testing of Two Proposed Classes of Apparitional Experience
What it would overturn
No mainstream hypothesis can currently be named as overturned because these two types do not yet constitute scientific constructs corresponding to existing mechanistic classifications.
Candidate labs / funders
Ben Alderson-Day，Durham University; Olaf Blanke，École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience
Specificity of Seth's formulation
There are additional category names, but the provided text does not specify observable differences; the classification itself does not constitute more specific predictions than existing hypotheses.
Note
Construct definition and reliability studies should be prioritized; if the two types are distinguished only by unobservable sources, neural measurements cannot validate such classification. The aforementioned teams study presence and body perception, not this dichotomy.
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim apparitions-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/apparitions-3