Research Program / Claims / psychological-time-9

Science must look inward as thoroughly as it looks outward, and guide individuals to cultivate inner sensations, because inner sensations are the only pathway to directly experiencing basic reality.

科学必须向内看,与向外看同样彻底,并引导个体培养内在感觉,因为内在感觉是直接体验基本现实的唯一途径。

Concept psychological time · 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.

Adjudicating experiment
Approximately 180 participants are randomly assigned to 8 weeks of structured introspection training, attention training, or an active control with matched contact time; at baseline, post-training, and 3-month follow-up, complete visual threshold tasks, experience sampling, and EEG; compare whether adding first-person data improves prediction of behavior and neural states on an independent test set. Pre-register scoring codes, rater agreement, and model complexity penalties; duration 12 months. This can test the incremental value of introspection training; the claim of 'only pathway' cannot be adjudicated by this experiment due to lack of an independent criterion for basic reality.
Suggested paper title
Incremental Predictive Value of Trained First-Person Reports for Behavior and Brain Dynamics
What it would overturn
If first-person reports after training stably improve prediction on independent samples, this would revise the methodological assumption that introspective reports provide no incremental information beyond behavioral and neural measures.
Candidate labs / funders
Antoine Lutz;Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon; Jean-Philippe Lachaux;Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Looking inward' is compatible with neurophenomenology, but 'only pathway' lacks a comparative standard and does not specify conditions under which introspection goes wrong or how to correct it.
Note
Subjective reports are both data to be explained and may be influenced by training language, demand characteristics, and reconstructive memory; their scientific value does not require accepting any ontology beforehand.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychological-time-9, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychological-time-9