Research Program / Claims / physical-body-6

All cells are conscious cells; atoms, molecules, and even smaller particles contain consciousness, which aggregates to form cellular consciousness while maintaining individuality.

所有细胞都是有意识的细胞,原子、分子甚至更小粒子都含有意识,它们聚合形成细胞意识并保持个体性。

Concept physical body · Domain Cellular Cognition and Mind–Body Inheritance · 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)
  • esp-power §3
Adjudicating experiment
First limiting to cell-level operational abilities: three classes of organisms without nervous systems, each with about 100 independent culture units, undergo stimulus-specific habituation, recovery, cross-context transfer, and novel task tests, controlling for fatigue, receptor adaptation, and selective survival; period 12–18 months. Pre-register comparison of held-out predictions between biochemical kinetic models and learning models with internal states. Even if the latter is better, it only adjudicates information-processing capability; atomic consciousness and individual experience retention require separate independently verifiable indicators, and no sample size can compensate for this gap.
Suggested paper title
Pre-Registered Tests of Learning and Generalization in Non-Neural Cellular Systems
What it would overturn
If single-cell subjective experience were independently confirmed, it would overturn the hypothesis that subjective experience requires a nervous system, but single-cell learning alone is insufficient.
Candidate labs / funders
Audrey Dussutour——Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale;[研究主页](https://cbi-toulouse.fr/membre/dussutour-audrey/); Michael Levin——Tufts University, Levin Laboratory
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Covering all cells and smaller particles while claiming retention of individuality after aggregation is highly specific; but it lacks operational rules for determining whether these systems have experience and how experiences combine.
Note
Cellular cognition, adaptive behavior, information integration, and phenomenal consciousness are not synonyms; renaming indicators cannot declare panpsychism validated.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Habituation in non-neural organisms: evidence from slime moulds — Romain P. Boisseau、David Vogel、Audrey Dussutour (2016), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
    黏菌表现出习惯化,支持无神经系统的学习能力;学习行为不能直接证明主观体验,更不能外推到原子。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0446)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim physical-body-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/physical-body-6