Research Program / Claims / psychic-phenomena-11

Science expects the outer senses to perform tasks for which they are unsuited—like expecting a camera to play music, and denying the existence of music because the camera cannot photograph it—while refusing to use the inner senses, which are the tools capable of processing such data.

科学期望外在感官去执行它们本不适合的任务，如同期望相机能播放音乐，因为相机拍不到音乐就否认音乐存在；同时拒绝使用内在感官这一能处理此类数据的工具。

Concept psychic phenomena · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contradicted

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
To test whether trained introspection provides novel valid information, one could recruit approximately 180 people, randomly assigned to 4-week structured introspection training, active interview training, or no training, and then perform ambiguous perception and confidence-judgment tasks over 9–12 months. Reports are blind-coded; cross-subject held-out prediction performance is compared with and without the introspective variables, with pre-registered metacognitive accuracy and report reliability. If one further claims access to externally unknown information, an isolated randomized-target task must be added; subjective richness cannot be used as a success metric.
Suggested paper title
Incremental Predictive Value of Trained First-Person Reports for Neural Dynamics and Perceptual Decisions
What it would overturn
If introspection training improves independent predictive performance, it would only revise the assumption within specific models that first-person reports add no incremental information; it would not overturn modern scientific method.
Candidate labs / funders
Antoine Lutz；Lyon Neuroscience Research Center; Francesca Siclari；Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Specificity of Seth's formulation
As a suggestion to use appropriate tools and study subjective experience, it resembles neurophenomenology; treating the inner senses as reliable external information detectors lacks operational definition and independent validation.
Note
'Contradicted' applies only to the generalization that contemporary science 'refuses to use inner experience,' not as a historical verdict on all 1960s scientific practice; a methodological proposal itself should not be rated as a natural law. [Contemporary meditation research project](https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-23-CE37-0022)
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychic-phenomena-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychic-phenomena-11