Research Program / Claims / suggestion-7

Science should study the connecting role of "design" between living and non-living systems, so as to approach electromagnetic energy units and units of consciousness.

科学应研究“设计”在活体与非活体系统间的连接作用,以接近电磁能量单位与意识单位。

Concept suggestion · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · methodological suggestion · 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
First define design as feedback control, restoration of target states, and information transmission. Use approximately 300 independent tissue/regeneration samples, accompanied by about 100 non-biological circuits or reaction-diffusion systems. Randomly perturb the connection structure and measure recovery trajectories;for living systems, intervene via ion channels or gap junctions; for non-living systems, apply corresponding circuit perturbations. Pre-register a unified dynamical model, carry out cross-system held-out prediction, with a duration of 18–24 months. Only if EE/CU separately provide measurable coupling, units, and predictions that deviate from existing models, would additional decisive experiments be warranted.
Suggested paper title
Shared Feedback Design Principles in Bioelectric Morphogenesis and Nonliving Adaptive Networks
What it would overturn
Discovering common feedback design principles would not by itself overturn mainstream assumptions; only discovering additional measurable causal entities would revise the assumption that existing electrochemical networks are mechanistically sufficient for morphogenetic control.
Candidate labs / funders
Michael Levin,塔夫茨大学Allen Discovery Center; Jessica L. Whited,哈佛大学,肢体再生研究; Victor Sourjik,马克斯·普朗克陆地微生物研究所
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Design, EE, and CU lack dimensions, dynamics, and detection methods; their current specificity is lower than that of cybernetic and bioelectric hypotheses, and they offer no unique quantitative predictions.
Note
Bioelectricity refers to measurable processes such as membrane potentials and ionic currents; ultraweak photon emission is another type of physical measurement. Neither can be equated with EE/CU merely by name association.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim suggestion-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/suggestion-7