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Obstructive behaviors (such as ulcers) are physical barriers; ulcers are the physical embodiment of lack of communication, forcing all levels to recognize unity.

阻碍行为(如溃疡)是物理性障碍;溃疡是缺乏沟通的物理具体化,迫使各层面认知到统一。

Concept blocking · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contradicted

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.

Adjudicating experiment
Establish a cohort of approximately 20,000 people without prior ulcers, followed for 5–10 years; annually measure emotional suppression, communication quality, stress, smoking, and medication use, test for Helicobacter pylori at baseline and appropriate intervals, with first endoscopically or medical-record-confirmed peptic ulcer as the endpoint. Pre-register causal diagram and handle time-varying confounding; additionally conduct a randomized trial of communication intervention in approximately 2,000–4,000 high-suppression high-risk individuals, followed for 3–5 years, adjusting sample size by event count, with all groups receiving standard medical care. Cohort supports associations; randomized intervention better approaches adjudicating modifiable causal effects.
Suggested paper title
Expressive Suppression, Communication Quality, and Incident Peptic Ulcer: A Prospective Cohort Study With a Nested Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
If communication deficit is proven to be a necessary cause of all ulcers, this would overturn the etiological model that "H. pylori and NSAIDs can cause ulcers through infection and mucosal damage mechanisms without requiring communication deficits."
Candidate labs / funders
Susan Levenstein; Steffen Rosenstock; Francis K. L. Chan; Angel Lanas
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Specifying "communication deficit→ulcer" is more specific than the general stress hypothesis, so must demonstrate incremental effect of communication beyond total stress and known risk factors; "forcing recognition of unity" has no verifiable endpoint.
Note
contradicted applies to the general etiological explanation; emotional suppression as an additional risk factor can still be studied, and ulcers themselves are mucosal defects, not to be conflated with obstruction possibly caused by complications.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim blocking-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/blocking-7