Research Program / Claims / apparitions-6
Nothing is directly seen; the perceiver always constructs images himself, and the perception of apparitions is no exception.
没有东西是被直接看见的，感知者总是自行构建影像，幻影的感知也不例外。
Concept apparitions · Domain Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status supported
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
Conduct a preregistered psychophysical study with about 200 participants over 6 months, orthogonally manipulating visual input reliability and prior expectation, including no-stimulus trials; compare out-of-sample predictions of input-driven, prior-integration, and pure response-bias models. For about 60 participants, add fMRI to examine the relationship between perceptual content and prediction signals; the experiment adjudicates specific processing models, not philosophical direct realism.
Suggested paper title
Sensory Reliability and Prior Expectations in Visual Perception and Stimulus-Absent Experiences
What it would overturn
What is supported is the negation of the naive hypothesis that vision is an unprocessed passive copy of the external world, which is not the mainstream position of modern vision science.
Candidate labs / funders
Philip R. Corlett，Yale School of Medicine; Albert R. Powers III，Yale School of Medicine; Olaf Blanke，École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience
Specificity of Seth's formulation
As a proposition that 'perception requires neural processing,' it has no unique predictions; if further claiming that consciousness creates external entities, that goes beyond current evidence and should be separately classified as untested.
Note
supported applies only to operationalizable constructive-perception explanations and cannot be extended to support the entire ontology or that all vision necessarily uses a particular predictive coding algorithm.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim apparitions-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/apparitions-6