Research Program / Claims / outer-senses-8
Scientists should look for what they do not see, explore seemingly empty places, and observe between events; only the inner senses can provide evidence of the fundamental nature of life.
科学家应寻找没有看见的东西，探索看似空无之处，观察事件之间，只有内在感官能提供生命基本性质的证据。
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)
Adjudicating experiment
First, the proponent must specify a life-science variable that can be predicted solely by inner experience and later objectively verified. For example, pre-register 300 people to judge survival-rate levels of cell samples prepared by an independent team with hidden identities, comparing against blind guessing, ordinary inference, and instrument measurement. Randomize sample identity, isolate conventional cues, lock a single primary endpoint, conduct a 6-month feasibility study, then a 12–18-month independent replication. Even if successful, it cannot prove that 'only' this method works.
Suggested paper title
Pre-registered Evaluation of Intuitive Judgments of Concealed Biological Sample Viability
What it would overturn
If, after strictly excluding conventional information channels, repeated accurate judgments of hidden biological states still occur, it would challenge the hypothesis that verifiable information acquisition about unknown samples requires physical information channels.
Candidate labs / funders
弗吉尼亚大学医学院知觉研究部（University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies，异常经验与能力研究）; Marieta Pehlivanova（异常经验及其认知相关因素研究）
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Empty places,' 'between events,' and 'fundamental nature of life' are all undefined; there is no prediction target, direction, or failure criterion. The experiment is a weak operationalized version proposed by the researchers.
Note
No direct paper testing this exclusive methodological claim was found; adjacent research at the [University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/) does not constitute endorsement of the claim.
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim outer-senses-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/outer-senses-8