Research Program / Claims / psychological-time-7

Successive moments and causal relationships are merely conceptual structures within the camouflage environment, applicable only at the level of the material universe; using them as standards for assessing other universes leads to error.

连续时刻和因果关系只是伪装环境中的观念结构，仅适用于物质宇宙层面，将其作为衡量其他宇宙的标尺会出错。

Concept psychological time · 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
The original statement does not specify how other universes can be accessed or measured, so no direct adjudicating experiment is available. A quantum switch could serve as a limited analogy, with each of three laboratories collecting 10⁵–10⁶ valid detection events. Causal witnesses, noise models, and control conditions would be pre-registered. Over 12–24 months, the study would test whether a specified model can be represented as a mixture of fixed causal orders. The results would adjudicate only that model, not nonphysical universes.
Suggested paper title
Multilaboratory Tests of Causal Nonseparability in Photonic Quantum Processes
What it would overturn
The testable component concerns the assumption that all physical processes can be represented as classical mixtures of definite causal orders, an assumption already constrained by research on quantum causality.
Candidate labs / funders
Časlav Brukner；量子基础与因果结构研究; Philip Walther；University of Vienna，量子光学研究; Giulia Rubino；量子因果顺序实验研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
No probabilistic model, experimentally accessible conditions, or causal inequalities are provided, making the claim less specific than existing theories of quantum causality.
Note
Indefinite causal order, retrocausality, absence of causality, and superluminal communication are distinct propositions; results from quantum switches cannot automatically be transferred among them.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Experimental verification of an indefinite causal order — Giulia Rubino、Lee A. Rozema、Adrien Feix、Mateus Araújo、Jonas M. Zeuner、Lorenzo M. Procopio、Časlav Brukner、Philip Walther (2017), Science Advances
    邻近证据：量子实验检验了因果不可分过程，但过程仍发生于物理系统，不能证明因果只是一种伪装或存在其他宇宙。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602589)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychological-time-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychological-time-7