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Physical systems serve only as a test board; physical conditions are not permanent but constantly changing.

物理系统只作为检验板使用，物理条件并非永久而是不断变化。

Concept you create your own reality · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · 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
Corresponding to supplementary question 2: approximately 300 participants complete threshold visual detection and face matching tasks before and after emotion induction, using a within-subject randomized crossover design, project duration 6 months; stimuli are calibrated by photoelectric probes with fixed physical parameters, including no-signal trials, forced choice, and confidence reports, estimating sensitivity d′, response criterion c, and metacognitive efficiency separately. Pre-register comparisons between predictive processing models and models that only change decision criteria, and test predictions on holdout data. This can only adjudicate whether emotion modulates perceptual processing, not the purpose of universal existence.
Suggested paper title
Affective State Modulates Perceptual Sensitivity and Decision Criteria Under Constant Sensory Input
What it would overturn
Merely confirming that emotion modulates perception does not overturn current predictive processing theory, and 'physical world exists only for testing' does not correspond to a mainstream testable hypothesis.
Candidate labs / funders
Lisa Feldman Barrett，具身预测与情感研究; W. Kyle Simmons，内感受预测研究; Olaf Blanke，洛桑联邦理工学院认知神经科学实验室
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Conditions are constantly changing' is compatible with usual physics but too broad; 'only as test board' adds teleological interpretation without adding clear distinguishable observational predictions.
Note
Increased detection rates may simply reflect a greater willingness to say 'seen,' so hit rates alone cannot represent perceptual sensitivity, nor can they represent changes in external reality.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Interoceptive predictions in the brain — Lisa Feldman Barrett; W. Kyle Simmons (2015), Nature Reviews Neuroscience
    理论联系：具身预测内感受编码模型描述预测与感觉输入的相互约束，不主张物理世界仅为意识的检验板。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3950)
  • Seeing What You Feel: Affect Drives Visual Perception of Structurally Neutral Faces — Erika H. Siegel; Jolie B. Wormwood; Karen S. Quigley; Lisa Feldman Barrett (2018), Psychological Science
    相近实验：情感背景改变对中性面孔的知觉匹配，但没有证明物理刺激本身改变。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617741718)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim you-create-your-own-reality-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/you-create-your-own-reality-3