Research Program / Claims / outer-senses-1

The outer senses cannot directly perceive the shapes of thoughts or dreams; they can only perceive physical camouflage, because concepts exist in an electrical reality.

外感官无法直接感知思想或梦的形状，只能感知物质伪装，因为概念存在于电性实相中。

Concept outer senses · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
First, specify the carrier, spatial location, measurable physical quantities, and predictions independent of neural activity for the 'electrical reality'; otherwise the original ontological claim cannot be adjudicated. A pre-registered cross-decoding study of perception, imagery, and hypnagogic dreams with 60–100 participants could be conducted, combining EEG, fMRI, and trial-by-trial reports, 4–6 sessions per person, over 12–18 months. That experiment could only test representational sharing; it cannot infer the existence of another reality from decoding success.
Suggested paper title
Shared and Distinct Neural Representations of Perception, Mental Imagery, and Sleep-Onset Experience
What it would overturn
Only by demonstrating that conceptual information exists in a measurable carrier independent of neural tissue would it revise the working hypothesis that human conceptual representation depends on the nervous system.
Candidate labs / funders
Yukiyasu Kamitani（京都大学，脑信息解码）; Joel Pearson（新南威尔士大学，Future Minds Lab）
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The 'electrical reality' adds an ontological commitment in language but provides no carrier, encoding rules, or distinguishable predictions; it cannot be equated with known neural electrical activity.
Note
This table rates complete claims; 'untested' means no direct study was found in this search or key terms are not yet operationalizable; it does not claim an exhaustive global literature. Adjacent evidence is indicated separately; all sample sizes are planned magnitudes and require power simulation refinement; paper titles are proposed titles.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Neural decoding of visual imagery during sleep — Tomoyasu Horikawa；Masako Tamaki；Yoichi Miyawaki；Yukiyasu Kamitani (2013), Science
    相邻机制证据：入睡期视觉经验的类别可由脑活动解码，表明梦与视觉知觉共享部分神经表征；没有检验独立的“电性实相”。[论文](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23558170/)
  • Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications — Joel Pearson；Thomas Naselaris；Emily A. Holmes；Stephen M. Kosslyn (2015), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    综述支持心理意象具有可测的视觉表征，并与知觉共享部分感觉皮层机制；不支持把概念定位于另一种实相。[论文](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26412097/)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim outer-senses-1, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/outer-senses-1