Research Program / Claims / blocking-8

When natural impulses are repeatedly denied, their force accumulates and explodes toward any still-open escape route.

自然冲动被不断否定时,其力量会阻积并向任何仍开着的逃生之路爆炸。

Concept blocking · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ 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 900 people participate in a pre-registered randomized experiment, with repeated restriction of mildly rewarding behavior, permission, and difficulty-matched controls; then randomly open the original reward choice or predefined harmless alternative activities. Six sessions within two weeks and one-month follow-up, controlling hunger, sleep, and reward value, measuring increases in alternative behavior relative to baseline. Clearly list routes in advance, comparing a general drive accumulation model with reward substitution, psychological reactance, and attention rebound models; cannot classify any post-hoc change as an escape outlet.
Suggested paper title
Behavioral Rebound and Response Substitution Following Repeated Impulse Suppression: A Preregistered Experiment
What it would overturn
If denied impulses always transfer across domains according to accumulated amount, this would challenge the hypothesis that "impulse regulation and behavioral substitution depend on specific rewards, learning, and context, rather than a general drive conservation."
Candidate labs / funders
Brad J. Bushman; Michael C. Anderson; James J. Gross/斯坦福大学心理生理学实验室
Specificity of Seth's formulation
"Any still-open path" appears universal but allows infinite post-hoc interpretation; only by pre-specifying paths, thresholds, and appearance times can predictions more specific than existing rebound models be formed.
Note
contested applies to the weaker version of rebound or substitution after suppression; the strong version "natural impulses must accumulate energy and explode" is not supported.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim blocking-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/blocking-8