Research Program / Claims / animal-consciousness-4

Animals are experientially part of human experience, but perception is simultaneously attuned to the perceptual grid in another mode.

动物在体验上是人类经验的一部分,但知觉同时以另一方式调谐于感知网格。

Concept animal consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · 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
Each of two centers recruited 30 awake dogs and 30 adults, totaling 120 individuals, over 12–18 months; under a three-axis coil, double-blind randomized presentation of geomagnetic intensity/direction changes, preset extremely low-frequency magnetic fields, and sham stimulation was used; three conditions were analyzed separately, with EEG and orientation behavior recorded. Sound, vibration, and temperature were strictly matched, and non-biological head models excluded induction artifacts; the species × stimulus interaction was pre-registered. The strong static magnetic field of conventional MRI would alter the target exposure condition, so responses during scanning cannot directly be used to explain natural weak magnetic perception; the results adjudicate only magnetic perception differences.
Suggested paper title
Neural and Behavioral Responses to Controlled Weak Magnetic Fields in Dogs and Humans
What it would overturn
Reliable canine weak magnetic perception could correct the assumption that specific canine sensory models do not include magnetic input, but would not overturn the mainstream already-accepted view that sensory abilities differ among species.
Candidate labs / funders
David A. Keays; Henrik Mouritsen; Shinsuke Shimojo
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Very low: there are no physical variables, frequencies, intensities, or spatial structures of the grid; equating the grid with a magnetic field is an interpretation added by the researcher.
Note
The cited Ziegenbein et al. (2019) review on magnetic perception was not confirmed; extremely low-frequency stimulation, geomagnetic direction changes, and conscious perception must be tested separately.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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