Research Program / Claims / emotions-11

The inner self knows no time; emotions are the best indicator of "time-making": intense emotional experiences are more "present" than unremarkable ordinary events.

内心自我不知时间，情绪是“制造时间”的最佳指标：强烈情绪体验比不生动的普通事件更“当下”。

Concept emotions · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · ontological claim · 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-class-2 §?（1970-10-06）
Adjudicating experiment
Approximately 300 participants complete 21 days of experience sampling, recording emotion intensity, vividness of presence, time passage, attention, event novelty, and fatigue six times daily; additionally, two laboratory emotion × attention random manipulations measure duration judgment and event ordering. Compare a single-factor emotion model with models incorporating attention, memory, novelty, and multisensory input using a held-out participant test set, pre-registering whether emotion has the best incremental predictive power; the period is about 3 months.
Suggested paper title
Emotional Intensity and the Experienced Present: An Experience-Sampling and Experimental Model Comparison
What it would overturn
Only if emotion proves to be a necessary and sufficient generative factor for temporal experience in strict model comparison would it revise the model in which temporal experience is jointly shaped by attention, memory, arousal, and sensory processing.
Candidate labs / funders
Sylvie Droit-Volet; Sandrine Gil; Marc Wittmann，Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Vivid events feeling more present is compatible with existing psychological explanations; the best indicator can be converted into a model comparison prediction, but the inner self knowing no time currently lacks an independently measurable definition.
Note
Interpreting time-making as altering temporal experience can only test a weakened version, which cannot verify its ontological implications; the section number provided by the user for the original text is uncertain, and this review addresses only the supplied paraphrase.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim emotions-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/emotions-11