Research Program / Claims / states-of-consciousness-7

Consciousness states exist in a progressive hierarchy from A-1 to A-5, with each level interconnected, used to explore different layers of reality.

意识状态存在从A–1到A–5的递进层级，各层级相互连通，用于探索不同层面的现实。

Concept states of consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · 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)

seth-speaks §19

Adjudicating experiment

First, individuals familiar with the procedure determine observable criteria for the five levels and permissible transitions before viewing data. Approximately 200 participants, including practitioners and novices, complete six sessions of high-density EEG, behavioral tasks, and standardized experience sampling within 8 weeks; random comparison of original order, neutral labels, and reordered induction. Pre-registered comparison of five-state hidden Markov models, other state-count models, and continuous multidimensional models, judged by out-of-sample prediction and test-retest stability, rather than forcing clustering into five categories. Project duration approximately 12 months.