Research Program / Claims / outer-ego-6

The communication channel between the inner self and outer ego has never been closed; the outer ego often acts on inner information without being aware of it.

内在自我与外在自我的沟通渠道从未关闭;外在自我常常在不知情的情况下依据内在信息行动。

Concept outer 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)
Adjudicating experiment
Two laboratories with about 200 participants each, each tested 3 times, performing approach-avoidance choices with small real consequences under masked risk images, clear risk images, and neutral image conditions; record skin conductance, pupil dilation, reaction time, and risk choices. Collect subjective visibility trial by trial, and constrain residual awareness with sufficient trials of objective discrimination and equivalence testing, avoiding post-hoc deletion of 'seers' to create effects; project duration 12 months. To test avoidance without ordinary sensory sources, a separate condition is needed where the stimulus is independently randomly generated after the choice; this cannot be conflated with subliminal perception.
Suggested paper title
Masked Threat Cues, Autonomic Responses, and Avoidance Decisions: A Multisite Pre-registered Study
What it would overturn
Subliminal cues affecting behavior do not overturn modern cognitive science; only if behavior reliably uses risk information that has not yet arisen and cannot be inferred would the causal assumption that 'decisions depend on existing information' be challenged.
Candidate labs / funders
John-Dylan Haynes — 意识前决策信号研究; Rongjun Yu — 无意识整合与决策研究; Stephen M. Fleming — 意识测量与元认知研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Acting without awareness' is not unique; 'the channel is never closed' is a stronger universal proposition but does not specify measurable indicators during sleep, anesthesia, or brain damage.
Note
The complete claim has not been directly tested; its unconscious processing sub-proposition has support, but the boundaries of complex integration are still disputed; skin conductance changes alone do not prove successful avoidance.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim outer-ego-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/outer-ego-6