Research Program / Claims / focus-of-consciousness-5

The focus of consciousness exhibits a rhythmic tidal pattern; consciousness moves in and out of physical and nonphysical reality, never being fully focused on physical reality even during wakefulness.

意识焦点呈节律性潮汐模式，意识在物理现实与非物理现实之间进出，即使清醒时也从未完全聚焦于物理现实。

Concept focus of consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · testable prediction · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)

early-sessions-6 §275

Adjudicating experiment

Corresponds to extended question 2: Approximately 120 participants, each completing three 90-minute awake EEG-fNIRS recordings and three consecutive nights of polysomnography, with the first night for adaptation; the project spans about 12 months. The awake task combines sparse experience sampling with external target detection, pre-registering period ranges, window definitions, and cross-day repetition criteria, comparing periodic models against non-periodic and autocorrelated noise models. fNIRS uses short-distance channels and records confounds such as respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure; about 40 participants additionally undergo fMRI to examine deep nodes of the default mode network. Pre-register the association between awake window metrics and the proportion of REM sleep relative to total sleep time. To test 'nonphysical reality,' one must also propose independent predictions such as identification of unknown targets within windows in advance.