Research Program / Claims / psychic-phenomena-6

Expectation itself is an electrical reality; a person not only predicts future events but also creates their reality within the electrical field, thereby ensuring its existence in the physical field.

期望本身是电性实相；人不仅预测未来事件，更在电性场内创造其实相，从而确保其在物理场内的存在。

Concept psychic phenomena · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · 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)
Adjudicating experiment
One can train and record skin conductance and HRV: approximately 300 people are randomly assigned to expectation training, active training control, and no-training groups, training for 4 weeks, with baseline and post-training tasks involving a learnable probability task and an independent random target task, over 12–18 months. Skin conductance, ECG, and respiration are recorded synchronously; HRV uses pre-specified minute-long segments, and skin conductance is analyzed at the trial level; targets are generated after predictions are submitted, with an additional distal random device the participant cannot see. The main aim is to distinguish three outcomes: expectation changes autonomic activity, expectation improves cue-based prediction, or expectation changes the external random distribution; only the third, if independently replicated, approaches an operationalized weakening of 'creating external events.'
Suggested paper title
Expectancy Training, Autonomic Dynamics, and Independently Generated Outcomes: A Pre-registered Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
If expectation, after excluding behavioral and physical coupling, changes distal random outcomes, it would revise the assumption that autonomic state and the output of an isolated random device are conditionally independent.
Candidate labs / funders
Helané Wahbeh；Institute of Noetic Sciences; Zoltan Kekecs；Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Psychology
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Ensuring physical existence' is much stronger than ordinary expectancy effects, but it does not specify conflicting expectations, unfulfilled expectations, or success rates; outcome distribution predictions must be provided in advance, and any outcome cannot be retroactively attributed to subconscious expectation.
Note
Skin conductance is a sweat-gland-related conductance index, and HRV is heart period variability; neither equals an external creative electric field. The specific electric-field creation mechanism of this item has not been directly tested, while related psychophysiological expectancy phenomena are contested.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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