Research Program / Claims / intuition-7
Intuitive prediction is more reliable in specific domains (such as weather) than prediction based on externally observable patterns.
直觉预测在特定领域(如天气)比基于外在可观测模式的预测更可靠。
Concept intuition · Domain Intuitive–Rational Cognitive Integration · testable prediction · 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
Approximately 150 self-identified trained intuitives, 150 ordinary participants, and 50 weather forecast professionals are recruited to make continuous predictions for approximately 100 pre-registered stations over 12 months, covering all seasons. Locked 24-hour, 72-hour, and 7-day precipitation probabilities and temperatures are compared with climatology, persistence forecasts, and contemporaneous operational numerical or ensemble forecasts; two conditions are set: no access to target station data, and all participants receiving the same data, with personal prior location knowledge recorded. Brier scores, continuous ranked probability scores, and temperature errors are used; correlations are handled by weather system and time block, with no post hoc selection of winning stations or lead times.
Suggested paper title
Prospective Evaluation of Intuitive Weather Forecasts Against Operational Ensemble Predictions
What it would overturn
If intuitive prediction without target weather information continues to provide incremental skill, this would challenge the assumption that "effective information in weather prediction comes from observations and learnable atmospheric laws."
Candidate labs / funders
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,预报评估研究:[项目](https://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/modelling-and-prediction/forecast-evaluation); Barbara A. Mellers,宾夕法尼亚大学:预测校准研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The weather domain provides a testable target, but the original sentence lacks lead time, location, comparison method, and reliability metrics, and does not yet constitute a specific superiority prediction.
Note
No direct evidence was found that information-free intuition outperforms operational weather forecasts; lack of direct comparison makes it inappropriate to judge as "contradicted" based solely on model success, and the source § should first be verified.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim intuition-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/intuition-7