Research Program / Claims / perception-11

Any perception is first a psychological perception, then translated into a way meaningful to the physical organism.

任何感知首先是心理上的感知，然后才被转译成对物理有机体有意义的方式。

Concept perception · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · 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
First define whether "psychological" means conscious report, unconscious representation, or non-neural process; the first two can be tested in about 150 people using randomly timed stimuli, visual masking, simultaneous electroretinogram and EEG recording, and time-windowed TMS with sham stimulation to test the causal necessity of visual cortical processing, about 12–18 months; using delayed report and no-immediate-report conditions to reduce response preparation confounds; the third interpretation, if lacking an independent measurement index, cannot be adjudicated by EEG timing.
Suggested paper title
Temporal and Causal Relationships Between Sensory Transduction, Cortical Processing, and Perceptual Report
What it would overturn
Only if a non-neural perception is independently measured to precede and drive sensory physiological transduction would the assumption that physical stimulus perception depends on sensory transduction and neural processing be revised.
Candidate labs / funders
Cogitate Consortium，意识理论对抗性合作研究联盟; Radoslaw Martin Cichy，柏林自由大学 Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Group
Specificity of Seth's formulation
If "psychological" means conscious experience, the strong temporal-order version is challenged by evidence of unconscious processing; if it includes all unobservable antecedent mental processes, it lacks distinguishable predictions; thus the overall assessment is untested.
Note
Pre-stimulus brain activity may arise from expectation, previous trials, or filtering leakage; it alone cannot prove perception precedes transduction; disagreement among mainstream theories of consciousness does not automatically support a non-neural ontology.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim perception-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/perception-11