Research Program / Claims / blocking-2

Obstructing action represents an actual blockage of energy or action, a dead-end accumulation, with energy diverted into channels detrimental to the whole personality.

阻碍行动代表能量或行动的实际阻塞,是死胡同式的堆积,能量被转入对整个人格不利的渠道。

Concept blocking · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · 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
Addressing the dual-task issue: multicenter recruitment of approximately 3,000 people, randomly assigning prior suppression tasks to low, medium, and high load, and setting non-suppression tasks of the same duration, difficulty, and boredom; then perform a 30-minute sustained attention task. Then randomly manipulate reward and expectation of fatigue, recording error rate, reaction time variability, pupil, and subjective fatigue; two sessions per person, project 12–18 months. Test whether load effects transfer across tasks and whether they can be explained by motivation, expectation, or task switching; performance decline itself cannot quantify consumed energy.
Suggested paper title
Inhibitory Demand and Subsequent Sustained Attention: A Preregistered Multisite Test of Resource and Motivational Accounts
What it would overturn
If blocking is confirmed as a multi-year cumulative near-automatic reaction, mere practice benefits align with learning theory; only if accuracy on hidden targets without information leakage consistently improves would the null hypothesis that "practice cannot improve identification of unobtainable target information" be challenged.
Candidate labs / funders
Junhua Dang; Kathleen D. Vohs; Elliot T. Berkman
Specificity of Seth's formulation
"Encouraging experiments" is a suggestion with no truth value; "trainable ability" does not specify the ability, training dose, or transfer scope, and currently has no unique predictions.
Note
No peer-reviewed papers directly evaluating these specified homework assignments were found; listed researchers do not represent having studied this practice. [Related training research direction](https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/michael.anderson/)
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect — Junhua Dang及合作者 (2021), Social Psychological and Personality Science
    12个实验室、1775人发现很小的后续自控表现下降,但未证明能量储存、转流或实体资源耗尽。[论文](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34113424/)
  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect — Kathleen D. Vohs及合作者 (2021), Psychological Science
    36个实验室、3531人的预注册确认性分析未发现显著耗竭效应,削弱了普遍而稳定的资源耗竭解释。[论文](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/psychological-science/0956797621989733/)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim blocking-2, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/blocking-2