Research Program / Claims / outer-senses-7

It is a mistake for science to rely only on the outer senses and their extensions; one should use the inner senses (mind, not brain) to explore the essence of life.

科学只依赖外在感官及其延伸工具是错误,应使用内在感官(心灵而非大脑)来探索生命本质。

Concept outer senses · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · methodological suggestion · 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
Narrow the proposal to whether structured introspection adds predictive value: recruit 120–180 people, randomly assign to introspection-report training or an equal-duration active control, train for 4 weeks; complete visual discrimination and EEG tasks; compare the predictive accuracy on left-out data for models using only behavior and EEG, those adding ordinary reports, and those adding structured reports; project duration 12–18 months. The separate mind-based version requires, in addition, a specified information source that can rule out brain processing.
Suggested paper title
Incremental Predictive Value of Structured First-Person Reports in Perceptual Neuroscience
What it would overturn
A positive result would only revise the specific hypothesis that structured first-person reports provide no incremental information beyond behavioral and neural measures; it cannot overturn the neural dependence of consciousness.
Candidate labs / funders
Antoine Lutz(冥想与神经现象学研究); Jean-Philippe Lachaux(注意与脑动力学研究); Stephen M. Fleming(元认知与主观报告研究)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The proposal does not specify which introspective method could discover which independently verifiable facts; 'mind rather than brain' adds an ontological position without adding experimental predictions.
Note
This is a mix of a normative suggestion and an ontological assertion; science already uses first-person reports. The real test is incremental validity, and the 'essence of life' must first be turned into specific research endpoints.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim outer-senses-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/outer-senses-7