Research Program / Claims / esp-8

Science has used the wrong tools in ESP investigation because investigators unconsciously presuppose a dualistic self, whereas in reality there is only one complete self.

科学在ESP调查上用了错误的工具,因为调查者不自觉地预设了二元自我,而实际上只有一个完整的自我。

Concept esp · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · methodological suggestion · 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
First, write the 'holistic self approach' into a reproducible procedure, then conduct a 2×2 randomized study with about 600 people: holistic self frame / neutral frame, and free narrative / structured report; keeping contact duration, target task, and blinding consistent, measuring expectancy, anxiety, and absorption tendency. The primary endpoint is isolated target identification, with secondary endpoints of report richness and experience scores; over 12–18 months. Only if the frame stably improves accuracy under identical leakage-prevention conditions would a limited methodological effect be supported.
Suggested paper title
Self-Concept Framing, Expectancy, and Target Identification Under Sensory Isolation
What it would overturn
If the effect holds, it will revise the task-level hypothesis that 'self-concept framing has no independent effect on isolated target identification accuracy,' rather than overturning scientific methodology.
Candidate labs / funders
Chris A. Roe,英国北安普顿大学; Antoine Lutz,神经现象学与沉思研究; Caroline Watt,Koestler Parapsychology Unit
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Low; it does not define how the dualistic self enters experimental equipment or procedures, nor does it specify which tools should fail and which should succeed.
Note
Modern cognitive science does not uniformly presuppose a dualistic self; performance differences due to procedural framing may also arise from expectancy, stress, or reporting strategies, which need separate distinction.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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