Research Program / Claims / esp-11
Seth correctly identified the contents of sealed envelopes, demonstrating that the hypothesis that the human personality is independent of matter, space, and time can be experimentally verified.
赛斯正确辨识了密封信封的内容，证明了人类人格独立于物质、空间与时间的假设可通过实验验证。
Concept esp · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · case evidence · 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
Separate the investigation into a historical audit and a prospective replication. Spend 6–12 months collecting the original targets, verbatim records, chronological sequences, records of misses, and feedback from all envelope trials; explicitly state that adjudication is not possible if sufficiently complete documentation is unavailable. Separately recruit approximately 100 individuals who report similar abilities, each completing 40 four-alternative forced-choice trials. Independent personnel randomly place targets in tamper-evident containers; experimenters interacting with participants do not know the contents, and responses are locked before disclosure. Duration: approximately 12–18 months. A historical audit cannot retroactively create blinding, nor can a new experiment retrospectively establish the original case.
Suggested paper title
Sealed-Target Identification with Blinded Scoring and Tamper-Evident Controls: A Pre-registered Replication
What it would overturn
If prospective replication succeeds, it would challenge the assumption that sealed random targets cannot be reliably identified in the absence of information leakage, but it could not directly establish that personality is independent of matter and spacetime.
Candidate labs / funders
Caroline Watt，Koestler Parapsychology Unit; Chris A. Roe，英国北安普顿大学; University of Virginia School of Medicine，Division of Perceptual Studies
Specificity of Seth's formulation
This is a specific, verifiable event, but the excerpts provided here lack the total number of trials, the target pool, original responses, and prespecified scoring criteria; evidence for above-chance performance therefore cannot yet be calculated.
Note
Descriptions indicating that experimenters generally knew the envelope contents were found in the original records. No independent rigorous verification with a confirmed DOI has yet been found, so the evidence field is left empty. This indicates the possibility of inadequate controls against information leakage and does not warrant an allegation of fraud. [Historical records](https://nowdictation.com/q/book%3Ates7%2Bsession%3A300%2Benvelope/)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim esp-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/esp-11