The self is generally the act of self-consciousness, attempting to separate itself from action and treat action as an alien object; the altered self can experience itself as an identity within and part of action.

自我是一般而言自我意识的行为，试图将自身与行动分离并把行动视为异己对象，而改变后的自我能体验自身为行动之内的身份和部分。

Concept ego · Domain Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration · 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)

early-sessions-7 §309

Adjudicating experiment

Question 5: Pre-register about 300 participants; use a rubber hand or virtual hand paradigm with active/passive movement × synchronous/delayed feedback; two sessions separated by 1 week. Treat self-independence as a continuous variable; measure body ownership, sense of agency, action consequence judgments, and control items; control for suggestibility, dissociative tendencies, cultural background, and task expectations. Additionally, randomly assign short-term decentering or matched attention training to test whether intervention changes these relationships; primary endpoint is the predetermined interaction effect on sense of agency. Project duration: approximately 12 months.