Research Program / Claims / outer-senses-12

During practice, Rob felt a strange sensation spreading locally; Seth called it 'sensation sound,' but it did not turn into sound or imagery.

罗在练习中感到奇异感觉扩散至局部，赛斯称之为“感觉声音”，但未转化为声音或图像。

Concept outer senses · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · case evidence · 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)

dreams-projections §2

Adjudicating experiment

Recruit about 60 individuals who can repeatedly report similar experiences and 120 matched controls; in a randomized crossover, administer neutral practice, 'sensation sound' suggestion, and attention-shift conditions. Record body-sensation maps, auditory and tactile thresholds, EEG, respiration, and EMG; include real sounds, silence, and tactile stimuli; 4–6 sessions per person, over 12–18 months. Primary tests: whether the experience is stable, stimulus-specific, and changes with suggestion; if additional information is claimed, blind target discrimination is added.

Suggested paper title

Expectancy and Cross-Modal Contributions to Unusual Somatic Experiences During Guided Attention

What it would overturn

A stable, unusual bodily sensation does not itself require overturning mainstream hypotheses; only if specific sound information with no conventional input could be decoded from it would this challenge the hypothesis that sound-content discrimination requires sensory input or existing memory.

Candidate labs / funders

Michael S. Beauchamp（多感觉整合研究）; Tony Ro（听觉—触觉相互作用研究）; Jamie Ward（联觉研究）; Peter Lush（暗示、期待与身体体验研究）

Specificity of Seth's formulation

It lacks pitch, rhythm, location mapping, repeatability, and discrimination performance; 'sensation sound' is currently a descriptive label without a distinctive mechanistic prediction.

Note

One should first record the experience in neutral language, only then apply a theoretical label; the absence of sound or imagery does not automatically mean that as-yet-untransduced sensory information exists.

Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Neural Substrates of Sound–Touch Synesthesia after a Thalamic Lesion — Michael S. Beauchamp；Tony Ro (2008), The Journal of Neuroscience
脑损伤后声音诱发触觉体验具有可测神经相关，是跨感觉体验的相邻例证；罗的报告没有外部声音诱因，不能据此诊断联觉。[论文](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6671766/)
Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion — Peter Lush；Vanessa Botan；R. B. Scott；Jamie Ward；Anil K. Seth；Zoltan Dienes (2020), Nature Communications
个体对体验的控制倾向与部分身体错觉报告相关，提示暗示和期待应作为竞争解释；不证明罗的体验由这些因素造成。[论文](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18591-6)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim outer-senses-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/outer-senses-12