Research Program / Claims / channeling-2
Perception necessarily changes the state of the perceiver; there is no neutral information that can be purely received independently of the perceiver's consciousness.
感知必然改变感知者自身状态，不存在独立于知觉者意识的可被纯粹接收的中立信息。
Concept channeling · Domain Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity · 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
The claim is split: ~200 participants complete a pre-registered perceptual learning experiment, comparing judgments, EEG, and subsequent memory for the same physical stimuli under different expectations; two measurement sessions over a total of 6 months can test whether perception changes the receiver's state. For the second part, if insisting that "no independent information exists," one must first provide observable predictions that differ from ordinary perceptual constructivism; otherwise, no finite sample or period can adjudicate.
Suggested paper title
Perceptual State Updating Under Identical Sensory Input: A Pre-registered EEG and Behavioral Study
What it would overturn
Only if the strong ontological version is independently confirmed would it challenge the working hypothesis that physical signals can be defined and recorded independently of observer consciousness.
Candidate labs / funders
Albert R. Powers III，Yale University Powers Lab; Philip R. Corlett，Yale University Corlett Lab
Specificity of Seth's formulation
"Perception changes the perceiver" is compatible with learning, adaptation, and predictive processing; leaping from this to "unconscious-independent information" adds ontological commitment without adding distinguishable predictions.
Note
Do not confuse physical signals, statistical information, and subjective meaning; the first part holding does not imply the second part, and the "observation" in quantum measurement cannot directly replace consciousness.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim channeling-2, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/channeling-2