Research Program / Claims / belief-systems-12
Seth recommended regular use of a pendulum to obtain 'yes/no' ideomotor responses.
赛斯建议定期使用摆锤以获得“是/否”的意念动作反应。
Concept belief systems · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status supported
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 300 participants would complete a pre-registered, order-balanced pendulum and button-press two-alternative forced-choice task, with experimenters blind to correct answers and automatic recording of trajectories and hand EMG; items include learned but low-confidence items and completely uninformative random items. Four weeks of repeated training would test discrimination, response bias, test–retest reliability, and whether the pendulum offers an increment over ordinary forced-choice responding.
Suggested paper title
Ideomotor Pendulum Responses and Metacognitive Accuracy: A Preregistered Repeated-Measures Study
What it would overturn
Obtaining ideomotor responses does not overturn existing theory; only stable extraction of information beyond the matched forced-choice task would require revising the model that both response modalities rely on the same available evidence.
Candidate labs / funders
Jay A. Olson、Ewalina Jeyanesan、Amir Raz：已有直接摆锤实验的研究者；本次未核实其仍在持续开展摆锤专项研究。[研究记录](https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/psychology_articles/82/); Devin B. Terhune：King’s College London Awareness & Modulation Lab，持续研究暗示、元认知与主观控制感。[实验室](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/awareness-modulation-lab)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The pendulum and yes/no procedure are specific, but ideomotor phenomena had been studied before the Seth material; the statement offers no unique prediction of accuracy or benefits from regular practice.
Note
'Supported' refers only to the production of such responses; it does not include the truth of answers, ability to diagnose physical problems, access to unencountered information, or health benefits from regular use.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim belief-systems-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/belief-systems-12