Research Program / Claims / psychometry-10
Similar experimental objects can cause data confusion, making it difficult to determine which object the sensed information refers to.
相似实验物体可造成数据的混淆，难以确定感应到的内容指向哪一个。
Concept psychometry · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable
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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Approximately 240 participants complete a cross-design of high/low physical similarity × high/low owner-experience similarity, with both similarities pre-rated by an independent sample; each person completes about 32 trials over about 4 months. Presentation modes include direct contact and sealed containers with identical appearance; record a four-alternative confusion matrix; use multinomial processing trees or signal detection models to distinguish target information, source memory, and guessing bias. Focus on testing whether similar objects still produce pre-specified directional errors after physical cues are masked.
Suggested paper title
Object Similarity and Source Confusion in Blinded Report-to-Target Matching
What it would overturn
Visible similarity causing confusion is consistent with memory theory; only if imperceptible target relationships still systematically determine error direction would this challenge the explanation that source confusion depends on available representational similarity.
Candidate labs / funders
Beatrice G. Kuhlmann，曼海姆大学; Christine Anne Simmonds-Moore，西佐治亚大学
Specificity of Seth's formulation
There is no distinction among visual similarity, material similarity, and experiential similarity, nor a prediction of misattribution direction; therefore, it cannot currently differentiate ordinary confusion from presumed anomalous information confusion.
Note
Ordinary source confusion has been studied; this 'untested' entry refers to the attribution confusion mechanism specific to psychometry, not the general proposition that similarity affects cognition.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychometry-10, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychometry-10