Research Program / Claims / physical-body-4

The physical world is composed of invisible, plastic patterns; the final form is determined by probabilities dominated by consciousness, and the senses determine the manner in which these patterns are perceived.

物理世界由不可见的可塑性模式构成,最终形式由意识主导的概率决定,感官决定了这些模式以何种形态被感知。

Concept physical body · Domain Cellular Cognition and Mind–Body Inheritance · mechanism · 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
Separate perceptual changes from external changes: approximately 300 participants complete expectancy cue and ambiguous visual stimulus tasks, with photoelectric sensors independently recording actual stimuli; additionally, intentional versus non-intentional conditions, with remote isolation of random sources, continuous raw data storage, and pre-fixed target statistics. The project lasts about 12 months; the random source portion should compute effective sample size based on independent time blocks rather than individual random bits, with pre-specified minimal deviations for independent replication. Only if external instrument readings change with randomly assigned intentional conditions does the physical world component approach testing.
Suggested paper title
Separating Expectancy-Dependent Perception from Changes in Independently Recorded Physical Outcomes
What it would overturn
If consciousness alters the distribution of external events without behavior or other physical channels, it would challenge the operational assumption that measurement results do not depend on observer subjective intention.
Candidate labs / funders
Floris P. de Lange——Radboud University, Donders Institute, Predictive Brain Lab;[研究组](https://www.ru.nl/en/departments/donders-centre-for-cognitive-neuroimaging/predictive-brain); University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies——异常意识现象研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The perceptual part is compatible with predictive processing; 'consciousness dominates probability' is stronger but does not specify which probabilities are affected, the magnitude, or boundary conditions.
Note
The observer in quantum measurement does not automatically refer to a conscious person; perceptual bias and external physical change must be separate endpoints.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • How Do Expectations Shape Perception? — Floris P. de Lange、Micha Heilbron、Peter Kok (2018), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    支持先验和感觉输入共同影响知觉,未证明意识决定外界物理形式或事件概率。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.06.002)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim physical-body-4, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/physical-body-4