Research Program / Claims / animal-consciousness-6

Humans, due to multifaceted development, are no longer subject to the extremely clear-cut essence characteristic of animal instincts; they require a moment of conscious choice and reflection, which most other beings largely lack.

人类因多方面发展而不再适用动物本能那种极度明确的本质，需要有意识的选择与反省的一刻，而其他生灵大半没有。

Concept animal consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ 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)

personal-reality §635

Adjudicating experiment

Using delayed-memory tasks matched for perceptual difficulty, paid-information viewing, and refusal-to-answer tasks, approximately 100 adults, 30 macaques, and 60 corvids were compared over 18–24 months; novel-stimulus transfer, reward revaluation, and no-feedback tests distinguished metacognition from associative learning, with pre-registered computational model comparisons. Only selected species can be tested; one cannot infer 'most other beings' from a few species.