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The Science of Consciousness 2025 BARCELONA

BARCELONA  July 6-11 31st Annual TSC Conference -Venue: AC Forum Marriott Workshops, Plenaries, Posters, Concurrents, Exhibits, Demos, Social, Poetry Slam - www.consciousness.arizona.edu 

VENUE -  AC Marriott Forum Hotel, Passeig Taulat 278 Barcelona

Registration:   Standard $600   Student $350   (includes Festival Pass)

TICKETS - TSC Conference REGISTRATION IS Now OPEN  

The Festival of Consciousness 2025 BARCELONA  July 11–13 Music, Art, Experiential, Inspiration,  Spirituality, Education, Business, Evolution followed by the 4th Annual FoC-25  adjacent to AC Forum Marriott - Plaza Leonardo da Vinci, 08019, Barcelona, España

Festival Pass Only: https://tscc.thefestivalofconsciousness.org/    Children under 16  - 3 day pass |  5 € - VAT incl;    Standard:  3- Day pass  ( July 11-13 2025) | 110 € - VAT Incl

HOTELS: 

Hotel Barcelona Princess: Directly across from the AC Marriott.  Use discount code: TSCC2025 https://www.hotelbarcelonaprincess.com/en/

AC Forum Marriott - Venue location. Block rate is full - 4/2 but changes so please check
2025 AC Forum Marriott - The Science of Consciousness - Block ROOM RATE: 174 EUR/night - Buffet Breakfast included; single occupancy

Conference Program Outline:  Rooms tba

Workshops: Sun July 6;   

M-F Early Morning Experiential Sessions

Plenary:  Mon July 7 - Fri July 11;  

Concurrents: Mon July 7 -Thurs July 10    

Poster Sessions: Mon July 7 - Wed July 9 

Exhibitors: Daily    

Morning Experiential  Sessions  July 7-11, - 7:00-8:15am 

Meditation Session with Deepak Chopra - Thursday

Poetry Slam/End of Consciousness Party: Thur July 10

WORKSHOPS - Sunday July 6  (Please scroll down for descriptions) 

Morning Sessions 

9:00 am – 1:00 pm  - Consciousness in Indian Knowledge Systems and Megahertz Brain Waves  - Martin Fleming, Ricardo Silvestre, Omduth Coceal, Kunal Mooley, Laxmidhar Behera, Hide Seagusa  Room: 

9:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Women in Consciousness Studies - Marjorie Woollacott; Joan Walton; Marina Weiler; Mona Sobhani; Allison Paradise, Laurel Waterman   Room: 

9:00 am – 1:00 pm -  Quantum Biology  -  Travis Craddock, Philip Kurian, Javier Martin-Torres, JackTuszynski, Chayan Nandi, Dana Kippel   -  Main Ballroom

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Break

Afternoon Sessions

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm  - Nonlocal Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception –  Alex Gómez Marin; David del Rosario; C Roe, Marina Weiler, IIT Mandi    Room: 

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm  - Is Consciousness Funda-Mental? - Nassim Haramein, William Brown, Suzanne Gildert, Nestor Mercado, Don Hoffman (R), Thomas Brophy. sponsored by ISF, Nirvanic Technologies, IONS  (Main Ballroom)

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Working Session on Taxonomy of Consciousness – Paavo Pylkkanen, Robert Lawrence Kuhn (R) Brian Lord     Room: 

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Food, Drinks

Evening Session

7:00 pm -10:00 pm  - The Varieties of BCI - Brain Computer Interfaces - Ana Maiques, Giulio Ruffini, Jay Sanguinetti, Arnaud Delorme, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Santosh Helekar, Brian Lord. sponsored by Neuroelectrics, Starlab, PuzzleX, DDG, SEMA Lab, Sanmei)  (Main Ballroom)

PLENARY SESSIONS   - July 7-July 11   - Main Ballroom 

Monday July 7      PL-1  -  PL-3

Plenary 1    8:30 am - 10:40 am - 'Consciousness and Reality'  

Sir Roger Penrose (R) 

William Brown, Instantaneous Memory Accession via Quantum Geometrodynamic Networks 

Avshalom Elitzur,  Qualia, Violation of Conservation Laws, and the Quanta of Pan-Psychism

Plenary 2    11:10 am – 12:35 pm  - 'Brain Modulation' 

Giulio Ruffini, From Kolmogorov Theory to Computational Modeling of Structured Experience

Jay Sanguinetti

Plenary 3     2:00 pm - 4:10 pm  'AI, LLMs and Biomimetic Quantum Computing'   

Farhan Lakhany, Assessing the Delta: LLMs & Unified Agency

Suzanne Gildert, Experimental Design and Testing of a Quantum Consciousness Algorithm for AI and Robotics Running on an Adiabatic Quantum Computer

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, "Dodecanogram: A Novel Instrument for Detecting Microtubule Resonance in Anesthetic States"

Tuesday July 8       PL-4  -  PL-6

Plenary 4     8:30 am - 10:40 am - 'Anesthesia, Psychedelics and Consciousness'   

Michael Wiest, Old theory, new evidence: microtubules are the biological substrate of quantum consciousness

Pär Halje, How consciousness may rely on brain cells acting collectively – evidence from psychedelic research on rats

Jennifer Penberthy, Psilocybin and Prolonged Grief Disorder: Role of Subjective Experience on Outcomes

Plenary 5    11:10 am – 12:35 pm- 'Non-Local Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception' 

David del Rosario, Evidence for Non-Local Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception

Laxmidhar Behera, IKS Approaches for holistic understanding of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness

Plenary 6  2:00 pm – 4:10 pm - 'Theories of Consciousness' 

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (R), A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications

Naotsugo Tsuchiya, Establishing standards for (realist) theories of consciousness/qualia: structural constraints from relationships among qualia

Stuart Hameroff 

Wednesday July 9      PL-7  -  PL-9

Plenary 7  8:30 am - 10:40 am -  'Consciousness and Quantum Measurement'  

Ivette Fuentes 

Thomas Brophy, Ontological Frameworks that Work

Santosh Helekar, Sentiometry – Measuring Peri-somatic Modulation of Diffracted Light by Consciousness and Characterizing the Underlying Physicochemical Mechanisms

Plenary 8  11:10 am – 12:35 pm - 'Consciousness and Vibrations in Spacetime Geometry' 

Nassim Haramein, Scaling from Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations to the Brain

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Self-operating mathematical universe, SOMU: Why do we need a non-physical reality to explain a physical system?

Plenary 9  2:00 pm – 4:10 pm - 'Brain Oscillations, Waves and Attention' 

Earl K Miller (R)  

Matthew Larkum, The dendritic decoupling hypothesis of anesthesia

Sabine Kastner, Neural Dynamics of the Primate Attention Network

Thursday July 10      PL-10  -  PL-12

Plenary 10   8:30 am - 10:40 am - 'Quantum Biology and  Superradiance' 

Philip Kurian, Computational capacity of life in relation to the universe

Dante Lauretta, The Science of Quantum Biology and Its Implications for Consciousness

Anita Goel

Plenary 11  11:10 am – 12:35 pm  - 'Energy, Information and Consciousness in the Universe' 

Dean Radin (R), Evidence for worldwide modulation of physical randomness correlated with coherent consciousness during New Year's Eve celebrations.

Rupert Sheldrake, Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature

Plenary 12  2:00 pm – 4:10 pm  - 'End-of-Life Brain Activity' 

Marjorie Woollacott, New clues to Terminal Lucidity in mentally-impaired adults

Alex Gomez-Marin 

Jimo Borjigin, Potential neural signatures of near-death consciousness in humans 

Friday July 11      PL-13  -  PL-14

Plenary 13   9:00 am - 11:10 am - 'Prospects for Extraterrestrial Consciousness' 

Ross Coulthart, Investigating the Psionic Interface: Alleged Non-Human Interactions with Human Consciousness in Covert UAP Programs. 

Brannon Wheeler, How do non-human intelligences communicate with humans?

Plenary 14  11:40 am – 13:00 pm - 'Quantum Fields and Consciousness'

Donald Hoffman (R),  Physics of Spacetime from Traces of Consciousness

Deepak Chopra, Consciousness is the Ontological Primitive of the Universe 

Federico Faggin, Consciousness and Free Will are Quantum Properties of Being

CONCURRENT SESSIONS   - Updating 

5:00 - 7:30 PM (Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur)   Rooms  TBA

MONDAY   JULY 7   -   C-1  -  C-5

C-1 Can AI be Conscious?          

Adam M. Curry - T2: A Novel Test for Assessing Latent Awareness in AI

Aneil Mallavarapu - The End of the Imitation Game: Why digital computers can’t be conscious

Sean Webb - We Gave Emotional Intelligence and Compassion to an LLM, and What It Exposes About Artificial Consciousness

Paul Mithun - Are LLMs Capable of Achieving Consciousness and In turn Artificial General Intelligence?

Chris Percy - Why the phenomenal binding problem limits digital computer consciousness to mind dust

Julian Yocum - Towards Strong Emergence: Non-Computability and Infinity

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C2    Brain Models of Consciousness 1 

Jan Treur - Multilevel Causality Reification as a Basis for Higher-Order Self-Representation: A Dynamic, Interactive, Adaptive, and Evolutionary Perspective

Silvia Paddock - Flip-Book Idealism (FBI): A discrete idealistic approach to consciousness

Justin Riddle - Consciousness is slow at the top: investigating the electric fields at the apex of the hierarchical brain

Aramis Valverde - Consciousness as Iterative Global State Evaluation and Integration: A Process-Based, Neurocognitive Approach to Understanding Phenomenal Dynamics

Konstantin Anokhin - Cognitome: cellular encoding of subjective experience in neural hypernetworks

Jonathan Schooler - The kite of consciousness and other metaphors of the mind

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C-3 Philosophy 1

Peter Ells - Metaphors are valuable in summarizing solutions to the mind-body problem.  Two are considered here: “inside versus outside” and “first-person versus third-person”

Harald Walach –Why consciousness is primary: A Leibnizian reminder

John Sanfey - Consciousness is the observational reference frame for invariance through time

Andrei Buckareff - The Boundary Problem: Why Constitutive Panpsychists Should Endorse a Powerful Qualities Theory of Properties

Jiawei Xu - Relational Realism of the Self: The Self as Pre-Cognitive Alignment between Brain and Environment

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C 4   Eastern and Global Approaches

Raja Choudhury - The Transformative Power of Tantric Mantra: Altered States of Consciousness for Wellness, Clarity, and Bliss

Gleb Sharygin - The strategy of resolving the mind-body problem in early Buddhism in the light of J. Searle's philosophy of mind and language

Alejandro Callara - Central and peripheral neural correlates of analytical and concentrative meditation in Tibetan Buddhism

Venkatesh H. Chembrolu –Perception and Reality in a Consciousness-First Framework 

VS Rakenduvadhana - Scientific inquiry the substrate if experientiality and precarious triumvirate Code

Hidehiko Saegusa - Consciousness Meter for Awakening, Non-locality of consciousness

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C-5 Evolution and Origin of Life

Deepavalli Arumuganainar – Evolution of plants: A perspective based on information vortex theory 

Michael Cremo - Darwin, evolution, and consciousness: A Vedic perspective

Colin Morrison - 1 5 3 God Made Me: The Amazing Hidden Structures in the Genetic Code

Asier Arias Dominguez - Interoception and the evolution of consciousness 

Marc van Duijn - Neuro-Topological Constraints on The Early Evolution of Consciousness: Bow-Tie Sensorimotor Architecture as a Prerequisite for Sentience

Michael W. Barry - Path of Least Action and Consciousness

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TUESDAY  JULY 8    C-6  - C- 12  -  Concurrents continued

C-6 Mental Health 1: Sound, Ultrasound and TMS

Tony Crescenzo - PeakNeuro Audio Entrainment: Improving Neural Plasticity, Cognitive Performance, and Adaptive Readiness.

Handan Yaman -  Investigation of the Effects of Long-Term Binaural Beats Application on Tinnitus Patients

Xiangqun Yang - Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Targeting the Right Precuneus on Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study Sebastian 

Sebastian Ehmann - Enhancing Meditative Development with Transcranial Focused Ultrasound: A Mixed-Methods Phenomenological Study of Neuromodulation in Expert Practitioners During a Ten-Day Retreat

Florine Riedinger - From Perception to Awareness:  The use of auditory roughness to overcome inattentional deafness in cockpit alarm detection

Alix Noël-Guéry - Mindful sound energy therapy, fractals, and alexithymia (emotional embodied intelligence)

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C-7 Can AI be Conscious? 2

Salvatore Scozzari - It's still me: extended robotic-self through deep temporal models and Mirror Self Recognition

Paul Skokowski - Androids then and now

Richard Ebstein - Synaptic Plasticity, Information Capacity, and Experiential Consciousness

Soo Hong Chew - Intelligence: Attention and Consciousness in Decision Making under Situation Uncertainty

Patrick Schotanus - The Market Mind; An Economic Angle on Consciousness

Sandra Estok - Quantum Singularity ...Cybersecurity -  

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C-8 Conscious Perception 

Peter Moddel - Consciousness and the Perception of Color: A breakthrough in the understanding of color and color formation brings new tools to the study of consciousness.

Brent Allsop - Physicists Don’t Yet Understand Color Qualities

Na Pan - Neural Mechanisms of Conscious and Unconscious Color Discrimination: Evidence from Intracranial stereo-electroencephalography

Michal Polák - Vividness – content-invariant property of experience

Piotr Podlipniak - Musical Pitch and Rhythm Qualia as the Primordial Source of Complex Conceptual Consciousness

Maria Giovanna Corrado - Auditory Perceptual Experience of Forceful Interactions

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C-9 Near Death Experiences, Reincarnation

Donna M. Thomas - "My Mind is not in my brain!": Investigating near death experiences and consciousness with children in a paediatric ICU ward

Marina Weiler - Out-of-Body Experiences and the Quest for Extra-Sensory Perception: An Examination of Methodologies and Findings

Barbara With - Experiential Inquiry into the Phenomenology of Afterlife: Exploring the Nature of Reality through Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

Jennifer K Penberthy - Impact of Communications from Deceased: After Death Communications and Grief

Imants Baruss - After-Death Communication with Cell Phones

Rafael Tedesqui - Investigating reincarnation as a missing piece in the “origins of talent” puzzle: A pilot study

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C-10 Philosophy 2

Xiangqun Chen - Solving mind-brain problem: do we need reductive or non-reductive neurophilosophy?

Michael Remler - Abstraction and the Explanatory Gap

Cosmin Visan - Introduction to Self-Reference

Uzi Awret - Brain Coherence and Loss of Which Way Information 

Andre LeBlanc - Joseph Delbœuf and William James on the Problem of Free Will

Ana Bárbara Brito - Searle, Libet and Non-determinism: An Analysis of Free Will in the Philosophy of Mind

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C-11 Quantum Biology

Travis Craddock - Exploring Quantum Effects in the Brain: Linking Theory to Experiments

Javier Martin-Torres - The Persistence of Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems

Chayan Kanti Nandi - Synchronized Chromatin Organization Serves as Potent Biomarker in Anaesthesia-based Plant Consciousness

Seungju Ahn - Analysis of Helical Pathway of Microtuble under the Surface Code framework

Keryn Dallas Johnson - A new model of consciousness and a quantum biological pathway associated with memory formation and recall associated with the physics of time.

Chiara Mascarello - Reflexivity and Luminosity of Mind: Insights from Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

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C-12 Brain Models of Consciousness 2

Mel Slater - VR- Consciousness in Virtual Reality and the Interface Theory of Perception: An Experimental Study

Akihiro Nishiyama - Quantum Brain Dynamics and Virtual Reality

Paavo Pylkkanen  - Quantum Dennett

Tam Hunt - Ephaptic fields forever: The "field code" and the "neuroscience of tomorrow"

Roman Poznanski - Quantum-delocalized information systems form the foundation of biological consciousness and its unifying mechanism

Francesco Tormen  – A Buddhist Perspective on Artificial Consciousness 

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WEDNESDAY JULY 9   C-13  -  C-18   - Concurrents continued 

C-13  AI, Brain and the World 1 

Poonacha Machaiah - Exploring Consciousness Studies: An Integrated Framework of AI, Distributed Agents, Blockchain, and Advanced Technologies

Ken Mogi - The role of consciousness in AI alignment.

Daniel Sheehan - Quantum AI and the Sheehan-Cyrus Turing Test

Nikolaos Koutsis - Ethical Implications and Academic Impact of Developing Conscious AI: Evaluating Large Language Models Through Prominent Theories of Consciousness

Gergely Csépány - The Shared Consciousness of Humans and Artificial Intelligence: A New Dimension of Reflection

Ron Chrisley -  Do current AI models have mental imagery?

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C 14   Monitoring Consciousness

Ye Ren - Magnetoencephalography Reveals Brain Network Imbalance in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients During a Delayed Matching Task

Maria Sourdi - Exploring Olfactory Stimuli Responses as Neural Markers of Consciousness: an fMRI Study

Katja Seeliger - Modeling states of consciousness during clinical sedation with stochastic differential equations

Benjamin Stucky - We are the sensors of consciousness! A review and analysis on how awakenings during sleep influence dream recall.

Yoshiyuki Ohmura - What is volition?

Marte Roel Lesur - Researching body perception: towards an integration of quantitative and qualitative interdisciplinary approaches to address the multiplicity of bodily experiences

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C 15   Organoids and Quantum Biology

James Tagg- The Large Brain Model

Rachel Potter - Frontiers in Neuronal Networks: Cerebral Organoid Sensory and Motor Interfacing

Roumiana Tsenkova - Non-invasive Aquaphotomics Study For Understanding the Effect of Body Psychotherapy Through Real Time Measurement of the Body Water Molecular Matrix

Marilu Chiofalo  Quantum Toolbox for Neurobiology Sensory Systems

Nancy Woolf - Quantum biology: The way the brain connects

Federico Bisiacchi – MAN AS A PRISM: The Interrelation between Consciousness, DNA, Amino Acids and Universal Code

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C-16  Funda-Mental/Quantum Approaches

Marko T. Manninen (Matti Pitakanen)- How subjective memories are realized in TGD inspired theory of consciousness?

Nestor Mercado - Time, Space and the Persistence of Memory

Maurice Goodman - A physics foundation for quantum biology.

Peter Lugten - How Entropy Explains the Emergence of Consciousness

Nicole Johnson - Putting It Altogether: Criticality, Multiscale Competency & The Panpsychist Combination Problem

Bernd Binder - Bringing to Life Quaternion and Octonion Pairs Entangled by Symmetry in Discrete-Time

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C-17 Psychedelics and Cannabinoids

Etzel Cardeña - Bringing Order to Disarray: A Consensus Taxonomy of Non-Ordinary (Altered) States of Consciousness

Keith G. Heinzerling - Application of psychedelics for modern spiritual activation and initiation

Federico Seragnoli - Metacognitive feelings of epistemic gain in psychedelic induced mystical-like altered states of consciousness

June Russell - On the computational properties of DMT-altered consciousness

Eleni Kroupi - The Effect of low LSD doses on EEG Complexity

Anass Fidni -  Making the Unconscious Empirical: Psychedelics as a Tool for Scientific Inquiry 

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C-18 Extra-Sensory Perception 

Helané Wahbeh - Beyond the Veil: A Systematic Investigation of Trance Channeling within UAP Research

Jyotiranjan Beuria - Neural Signatures of Non-Vision Visual Perception: An Empirical Investigation (Beuria or Chembrolu)

Ulf Holmberg - Mapping the Mind: A Bayesian Framework for Mind-Matter Interaction

Álex Escolà-Gascón - Sensing the future through a quantum-like implicit learning mechanism in nonlocal consciousness

Anatoly Goldstein - Toward Understanding the Mechanisms of Extra Sensory Perception

Gabriel Guerrer - The Case of Anomalous Psycho-Physical Interactions: Investigating an Unconventional Hypothesis Within a Methodologically Rigorous Framework

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THURSDAY  JULY 10     C-19  -  C-24 - Concurrents continued 

C-19 AI, Brain and the World 2

Michael Ye - When AI Takes a Deep Breath: Examining Embodied Cues in Large Language Models for Enhanced Reasoning, Performance, and Creativity

James Driessen - "Cogitare Facile," Nonlocality, Qualia, and Generative Pre-trained Transformers

Maja Gutman Mušič - From Oracles to Algorithms: Ancient Dream Knowledge in the Ai Paradigm

Ouri Wolfson - The Mathematical Formulation of a Mechanism that Detects Consciousness in AI agents 

Andrew Knight - Why the Brain Cannot Be a Digital Computer: History-Dependence and the Computational Limits of Consciousness

Jeffrey Dunne - Consciousness, Telekinesis, and Artificial Intelligence

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C-20 Brain Models of Consciousness

Hardik Chadda - Oscillatory Signatures of Creative Cognition Stages: Neural Dynamics of Idea Generation, Evolution and Evaluation

Austin Cooper - Dynamic Reorganization in Mediation - Altered Relationship of Neural Timescales and Scale-Freeness

Madeleine Gross - Expanding the Aperture of Awareness: Salience Processing and the Creative Mind

Molly Hermiller The Putative Role of Slow and Fast Theta Rhythms in Internal and External Representations Along the Hippocampal Longitudinal Axis

Chuong Ngo – Neural Dynamics of Meditative Deep States: Alpha Suppression, Gamma Synchronization, and Infraslow Wave Activity in Expert Practitioners

Deepak Ranade - Role of the Default Mode Network in genesis of consciousness and the sense of Self using fMRI BOLD sequences.

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C-21 Mental Health 1: Photobiomodulation, Lucid Dreaming and Meditation

Lew Lim - Photobiomodulation, High-Frequency Brain Oscillations, and Quantum Coherence: Toward a New Paradigm for Enhancing Cognition and Consciousness

Sanjay Manchanda - Supporting Meditation with Photobiomodulation in Experienced Meditators: A Randomized Controlled EEG Study

Reza Zomorrodi - Significant Shifts in Meditation States Triggered by Photobiomodulation Frequency Switching: Evidence from a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled EEG Study

Antonia Di Francesco - Photobiomodulation (PBM) and consciousness

Garret Yount - Decreased PTSD Symptoms Following a Lucid Dreaming Workshop: A Randomized Controlled Study

Mihir Nath - Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials Track Depth of Meditation (Reggente, N.)

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C-22 Extra-Sensory Perception and Extraterrestrial Consciousness

Arnaud Delorme - Examining the Effects of Biofield Therapy Through Simultaneous Assessment of Electrophysiological and Cellular Outcomes

Konstantin Korotkov - Remote effects of meditation and intentions. Experimental approach with GDV Bio-Well technology

Toper Taylor - The Human Performance Intention Experiment

Raul Valverde - Medical biometrics based on Gas Discharge Visualization technology approach to survival research: A case study 

Maria Balaet A neuroscientific perspective on studying extraterrestrial intelligence

Dana Kippel - Extraterrestrial UAP Plasmoids: Could They Be Conscious?

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C-23 Education in Consciousness Studies

Laurel Waterman - Teaching with Consciousness: Findings from my doctoral research, a narrative inquiry into scholars' experiences teaching about consciousness beyond the brain.

Joan Walton - Expanding the idea of a world-centered education to include new ideas about consciousness: A response to Biesta’s question: “What shall we do with the children?”

Milena Braticevic - Consciousness Science in Worker Health and Safety

Srishti Rajeev, Michael Balducci, Samantha Hanus, University of Arizona Undergraduates in Consciousness Studies Program, Thomas Bever, Director 

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C-24 Fine Arts in Consciousness Studies

Ana Iribas-Rudín - Painting still-lives with dyschromatopsia: A case study

David Keplinger - The Yakutia Ice Bodies and the Trauma Response of "Freeze:"  -  A Poetry Reading from David Keplinger's "Ice"

Alicia Campos - The Möbius Soul. Marguerite Porete's Earthy Consciousness

Manel Baez -  interactive Diluvio: Teatro delle Ombre (Deluge: Theatre of Shadows)

Suren Shrestha - Resonating in a Modern World: Himalayan Singing Bowls and Vibrational Healing 

Sylvie Herrouet - Art and the problem of Consciousness with the concept of "Infrathin" of Marcel Duchamp: The interface between two worlds, an analogy of the decoherence phenomenon.

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POSTER SESSIONS  (Mon, Tues, Wed) 7:30-10:00 pm Room:      

Poster Size:    1m wide x 2m high  |     3 ft wide x 6 ft high 

Accordion Style Boards 

Monday July 7:

Alba Carod, Alfredo-Parra-Hinojosa, Ana E. Iribas, Anass Fidni-Kenza Naji, Andre LeBlancm Andrea Signorelli, Andrew Cote, Angus Nisbet, Anubhab Chakraborty, Ariadna Sandoval, Arzhang Kamarei, Dan McAran, Diana Ciubotaru, Edward Jacek Gorzelanczyk, Flavio Burgarella, Manuel Baez, Matthew Wiliams, Maurizio Barbeschi, Michael Gulley, Miltiadis Argianis Karakitsos, Natalia Sanchez, Pascal Michael, Rhonda Reliford, Robert Bishop, Steve Gunther, Wojciech Krzykwa  

Tuesday July 8:

Anatol Bragin, Andrea Oddos, Arunvel Thangamani, Benjamin Liljedahl, Carolina Czizek, Charles Ernst, Daniel Montoya, Deepavalli Arumuganainar, Dragana Favre, Frank Högemann, Gary Blaise, Gitāna Dāvidsone, James Bard, James Beran Jocene Vallack, Kennedy Robertson, Laura "LD" Deutsch, Luis Mazas, Luis Miguel Gallardo, Madeline Fauss, Mark Valladares, Monica Herrera-Cendales, Mustafa Erol, Raluca Ioana Cibu Buzac, Reidar Wasenius, Robert Trandafir, Thomas Klepach, Tib Roibu, Tracy Shew, Xinyan Zhang   

Wednesday July 9:

Alan Scheurman, Anath Ranga, Austin Nafe, Bettina Wichers, Cassy Liu, Christophe Novak, Diana Jackson, Dylan Martin, Edward Porter, Gary Comstock, Guruprasad Kadam, Hiroki Yamada, Jeffrey Beck, Johannes Wagemann, John Stuller, Kyle Hankee, Leslie Deere, Lukasz Kurowski, Marco Accardi, Marianne Neill, Mario Boido, Mark Valladares, Matti Kangaskoski, Mihály Rámpay, Odd Ness, Rakenduvadhana Srinivasan, Robin Zebrowski, Sohom Chakrabarty, Sophi Anderberg, Tanya Burgess, Tina Lindhard

2025 TSC Conference Sponsors – updating

UA-AZ Astrobiology Center - UA Center for Consciousness Studies - UA SEMA Lab - Instituto de Neurociencia Avanzada de Barcelona (INAB)- The Festival of Consciousness - Nirvanic Technologies - VieLight - NE Neuroelectrics Barcelona SLU - Tiny Blue Dot Foundation - IONS,   Sanmei  -  PeakNeuro -  International Space Federation - StarLab Living Science -  DDG - Puzzle X,  IOMED.it -    updating …

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Exhibitors - Daily 

Daily   E 1 - E 10     |   Lobby area

7:30-10:00 pm (Mon, Tues, Wed)

WORKSHOPS    

Sunday July 6  - updating descriptions - 3 parallel sessions  - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm & 1 Sunday evening session 7:00 pm -10:00 pm  (speakers subject to change) 

Morning Session

9:00 am – 1:00 pm  - Consciousness in Indian Knowledge Systems and Megahertz Brain Waves  - Martin Fleming, Ricardo Silvestre, Omduth Coceal, Kunal Mooley, Laxmidhar Behera, Hide Seagusa  

9:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Women in Consciousness Studies - Marjorie Woollacott; Joan Walton; Marina Weiler; Mona Sobhani; Allison Paradise, Laurel Waterman 

9:00 am – 1:00 pm -  Quantum Biology  -  Travis Craddock, Philip Kurian, Javier Martin-Torres, Jack Tuszynski, Chayan Nandi, Dana Kippel (Main Ballroom)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Break

Afternoon Session

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm  - Nonlocal Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception –  Alex Gómez Marin; David del Rosario; C Roe, M Weiler? IIT Mandi?

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm  - Is Consciousness Funda-Mental? - Nassim Haramein, William Brown, Suzanne Gildert, N Mercado ? Donald Hoffman [R] ; Thomas Brophy. sponsored by ISF, Nirvanic Technologies, IONS  (Main Ballroom)

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Food, Drinks

Evening Session

7:00 pm -10:00 pm  - The Varieties of BCI - Brain Computer Interfaces - A Maiques, Giulio Ruffini, Jay Sanguinetti, Arnaud Delorme, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Santosh Helekar, Brian Lord. sponsored by Neuroelectrics, Starlab, PuzzleX, DDG, SEMA Lab, Sanmei)  (Main Ballroom)

updating Workshop descriptions: 

Consciousness in Indian Knowledge Systems and Megahertz Brain Waves  - Martin Fleming (SPi) -- A comprehensive framework for articulating theories of consciousness; Ricardo Silvestre (Campina Grande U.) -- Cosmopsychism, panpsychism and concept of fundamental consciousness; Omduth Coceal (U. Reading) -- Concepts of Subtle Body & Consciousness in Eastern Knowledge; Kunal Mooley (IMICS, Caltech, IIT Kanpur) -- Developing the Science of Reincarnation; Laxmidhar Behera (IIT Mandi) -- Megahertz brain waves during extrasensory perception; Hide Seagusa (IIT Mandi) -- Megahertz brain waves in Awakened states. This session will introduce the audience to consciousness described in different schools of Indian philosophy and place these descriptions in the context of modern theories of consciousness. The other presentations in the session will discuss ongoing research on extraordinary perceptual abilities, reincarnation and awakened states. The session will end with a panel discussion covering all topics discussed by the speakers. 

Women in Consciousness Studies - Marjorie Woollacott; Joan Walton; Marina Weiler; Mona Sobhani; Allison Paradise, Laurel Waterman   How can we engage more women in consciousness studies scholarship and discourse, and what happens when we do? This workshop features female scholars from different disciplines sharing findings from their consciousness studies research. The theme of the value of women’s contributions to the field will be woven through the presentations and discussions. Do women’s perspectives, questions, approaches, and interpretations offer something potentially new or different to the study of consciousness? Do women have unique experiences of being consciousness researchers that may differ from men’s? If so, how can we bring these experiences into the field to enrich its scope and depth? This workshop will include research presentations by the panelists and dialogues about the future of women in consciousness studies research. Speakers in this workshop include Dr. Marjorie Woollacott (U Oregon, Inst. of Neuroscience), Dr. Joan Walton (York St. John U, Education), Dr. Marina Weiler (U Virginia, DOPS), Dr. Mona Sobhani (IONS), Allison Paradise (CEO, The Epicenter), and Laurel Waterman, PhD. Candidate (U Toronto, Curriculum and Pedagogy).  

Abstract Submissions  - editing permitted

ABSTRACTS  2025 TSC - LINK    

TRAVEL

As of March 2025, U.S. citizens will not need a visa to visit Spain for short-term stays (up to 90 days) but will need to obtain an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) travel authorization before traveling, which is expected to launch in the last quarter of 2026. 

Please check with your local Travel Agent, Embassy, or the links below

The Entry/Exit System (EES)  expected to launch in 2026 -  The Entry/Exit System (EES) is an automated IT system for registering non-EU nationals traveling for a short stay, each time they cross the external borders of any of the following European countries using the system:

ADDITIONAL HELP

CIBTvisas is a private global company that is authorized to process visa applications and expedite passports at consulate and passport agencies for a fee. This might be a helpful option to explore. 

https://cibtvisas.com/worldwide-offices
 

Executive Committee 2025:  

Stuart Hameroff - Dante Lauretta - Jay Sanguinetti - Brian Lord - Thomas Brophy - Claudia Weiss - Xavi Ginesta - Abi Behar Montefiore

General Program Committee 2025:   

Thomas Bever  - Robert Lawrence Kuhn - Adrienne Vancura - Alain Morin - Erika Cook - Justin Riddle - David del Rosario - Gina Poe - Zena Cinker - Paavo Pylkkanen - Travis Craddock

Contact/Info:  center@arizona.edu

Credits

Revised Graphic:  Gaudi Brain - credit:  Hugo Barbera

Graphic 1 : 'Gaudi's Brain' - credit: ChatGPT/Xavi Ginesta

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The Science of Consciousness | April 6-11, 2026                 center@arizona.edu    Abstracts: Fall, 2025

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Community News - SUMMER 2025 - Rome, Italy

Faith, Science, Mysticism - Rome ITALY  - June 17-20 2025 

Faith and Science Conference
Enhanced by Art, Music and Interfaith Mysticism
Rome, Italy, Tuesday-Friday, June 17-20, 2025, The Jubilee Year
Conference Theme: A Journey into God’s Mystical Love -  Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra, Via Paolo VI n. 29 (Piazza S. Pietro) Roma – Italia

S. Hameroff, MD  "Consciousness and Free Will" - Dr. Hameroff Is professor and director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. With Oxford Nobel Laureate, Sir Roger Penrose, he has proposed consciousness depends on quantum processes in microtubules, protein polymers inside brain neurons, connected to fluctuations in the fine scale structure of the universe. Hameroff has speculated consciousness precedes and persists after life, entangled in spacetime geometry.

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ASTROBIOLOGY and Consciousness Research

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OSIRIS-REx, 1 year later: Asteroid sample continues to provide clues about early solar system and origins of life on Earth

U of A Regents Professor Dante Lauretta says he is "amazed by the discoveries we've made" since the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered an asteroid sample to Earth last year.  Read more

Prof. Lauretta is co-chair, Center for Consciousness Studies and AABC Director

$1M gift will advance consciousness research at U of A Astrobiology Center

The Arizona Astrobiology Center received a $1 million gift from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer, to support research on the origins of life and consciousness.  Read more

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Bennu holds the solar system's 'original ingredients,' might have been part of a wet world - Mikayla Mace Kelley, UA News, June 26, 2024

California Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, IMICS are currently participating in the  Consciousness & Reality (C&R) colloquium series - YouTube sessions with: Stuart Hameroff, Anesthetic action links consciousness to quantum vibrations  

plus: Christof Koch, Steven Laureys, Fiona Macpherson, Michael Levin, Donald Hoffman, Lee Smolin, Bernardo Kastrup, Jim Tucker, Anil Seth, Liad Mudrik, Sean Carroll

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Dr. Stuart Hameroff discusses microtubules, biological quantum processing, ORCH OR theory, quantum consciousness, and a new study that supports the quantum basis of consciousness in the brain. Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona, author of the book “Ultimate Computing”, and lead organizer of the biannual Science of Consciousness conference. Dr. Hameroff is known for his role as the co-founder of the Orchestrated objective reduction model of consciousness, which he developed in conjunction with physicist Sir Roger Penrose in the early 1990’s. 

LINKS & RESOURCES: Stuart Hameroff Website (University of Arizona) https://hameroff.arizona.edu/ 

Study Supports Quantum Basis of Consciousness in the Brain https://neurosciencenews.com/quantum-... 

Microtubule-Stabilizer Epothilone B Delays Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats https://www.eneuro.org/content/11/8/E... 

Wellesley team’s new research on anesthesia unlocks important clues about the nature of consciousness https://www.wellesley.edu/news/welles... 

Ultimate Computing https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Compu... 

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Mind-M...

TSC Conference 2024     

2024  THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS  April 22-27, 2024 - 30th Annual  - Tucson

Plenary & Workshop Videos

2024 The Science of Consciousness – Plenary, Keynote, Workshops  PL1-PL14, WK1, WK2, Symposium - See the TSC YouTube Channel  

2024 TSC PLAYLIST YouTube - Conference Sessions 

2024  TSC Archived Historical -  Promos and Interviews 

2024  TSC Remote Presenters 

Interviews Tucson 2024: 

CONSCIOUSNESS CENTRAL -  Hosted by NICK DAY 2024 Interviews  

Program 1 - Stuart Hameroff • Paavo Pylkkanen   • Harald Atmanspacher • Jason Padgett 

Program 2 - Donald Hoffman • Claudia Passos • Elizabeth Krasnodar  • HIDE SAEGUSA

Program 3 - Susan Schneider • Thomas Brophy • Master Sha and his collaborators, quantum physicist Ruilin Xiu and physicians  Peter Hudober and Consuelo Fernandez Finally Scott Olsen talks about the convergence of indigenous shamanic art with Western psychedelic imagery.

Program 4 - Jonathan Schooler & Tam Hunt  •  Susan Blackmore & Emily Troscianko  • POSTER SESSION • Stuart Hameroff • DAN DENNETT (2004) • POETRY SLAM & END OF CONSCIOUSNESS PARTY

Program 5 - QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS SPECIAL:  Stuart Hameroff • Anirban  Bandyopadhyay • Santos Helekar  

Center for consciousness studies -  CONTACT/Links  
CCS Website  
YouTube Channel  - The Science of Consciousness Conferences & programs 
Facebook CCS-TSC
Join TSC E-list    
telephone:   520-247-5785   
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Abi Behar Montefiore, Asst. Dir.; Sr. Prgm. Mgr. 
Stuart Hameroff, Director  - hameroff.arizona.edu

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September 21-22, 2024  HowTheLightGetsIn-London,

Quantum collapse holds the key to consciousness - How consciousness is a quantum symphony IAI TV - Stuart Hameroff argues that by studying anesthesia we are able to understand what goes away in the brain when the light of consciousness is .....

Sat Sept 21 4:00 - 5:00 pm BST  Debates - Quantum and the Unknowable Universe  philosopher Slavoj Žižek, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, and Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose debate whether quantum mechanics has made the universe fundamentally unknowable.

Sat Sept 21 5:30-6:30 pm BST - The Divided Self - Joining live from the US via video link, neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris and Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose discuss whether the self is divided.

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August 2024, Consciousness Pre-dates

Consciousness came before life 

The fundamental cause of evolution.
Hameroff, S. (2024, May 08). Consciousness came before life. IAI News. /articles/life-and-consciousness-what-are-they-auid-2836

Most scientists and philosophers believe that life came before consciousness. Life appeared on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago; consciousness and feelings, it’s said, evolved later due to complex biological information processing, perhaps only recently in brains with language and tool-making abilities. In fact, though, there’s good reason to think that consciousness preceded life, and was central to making life and evolution possible. More

‘Darwin vs Consciousness’ alongside biologist Denis Noble and philosopher Antonella Tramacere, Stuart Hameroff debate at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, May 24th-27th - 25 May 2024 Hay-on-Wye Stuart's X   

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TSC Conference 2024        
The Science of Consciousness - Tucson 30th 

Plenary & Workshop Videos 2024

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SYMPOSIUM - TSC - INTEGRATED INFORMATION THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Paavo Pylkkanen, Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Matteo Grasso

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THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2024 

CONFERENCE VIDEOS 2024  

Plenary, Keynote, Workshops, Symposium

Historical Clips and Consciousness Central Interviews  

Archives/Highlights

The Times Higher, April 5, 1996

Special Edition

Toward a New Science of the Mind:

Tucson 1996 consciousness  

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2003 Compilation Consciousness

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 Tucson Lifestyle  -2024  Picturing Consciousness, S. Barker

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New Scientist  2024 - Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory? G. Musser

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Reviews 2024 - Andrés Gómez Emilsson / Consciousness Qualia

https://qualiacomputing.com/2024/05/02/reflections-on-the-science-of-consciousness-conference-2024/

 

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Remote Presenters

PROGRAM - Web version TSC 2024

It was thirty years ago today... 

The Science of Consciousness 2024

WORKSHOPS  - MONDAY -  April 22, 2024

8:30 am to 12:30 pm  (Kiva, Catalina KL, Catalina J, Exec. Board Room, Santa Rita, Sabino)

QUANTUM BIOLOGY - Chair, Paige Derr (NIH/NCATS); Stuart Hameroff (U Arizona) Travis Craddock (NSU) Remote; Albert Siryaporn (UCI); Nirosha Murugan (Remote) ,  Manisha Patel, (UCSB), Philip Kurian (Howard U) Remote  (Kiva)  

INDIAN KNOWLEDGE, HEALTH AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS (“IKSHMA”) Chair: Martin Fleming (SPi) Remote from India:  Co-Chair: Kunal Mooley (CalTech, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur; IMICS); Laxmidhar Behera (IIT Mandi), Rama Jayasundar (AIIMS Delhi). In person Tucson: Martin Fleming (SPi), Donald Hoffman (UC Irvine); Christopher Lord (Charles U-Prague); Venugopal Damerla (U Texas), Guruprasad Raghavan (Yurts AI) (Catalina J)

Dual Aspect Monism  -  Michael Silberstein (Elizabethtown College); William Seager, (U Toronto); Harald Atmanspacher (Collegium Helveticum-ETH Zurich) - Jeffrey Kripal (Rice U) (Catalina KL) 

Dreamless Sleep  -  JF Pagel (U Colorado); Jerome Alonso (U Calgary); Antonio Zadra, (U Montreal); Gina Poe (UCLA) (Exec. board room) 

12:30-2:00 break

2:00 pm to 5:30 pm  - Monday Workshops, Continued 

Neurophysiology of Loss & Recovery of Consciousness - M. Bruce MacIver (Stanford U); Kathleen Vincent (Harvard U); Anthony Hudetz (U Michigan); Hyunwoo Jang (U Michigan)  (Kiva) 

Terminal Lucidity - Chair: Marjorie Woollacott (U Oregon); Michael Nahm, (IFAP Freiburg); Natasha Tassell-Matamua (Massey U, NZ); Chris Roe (U Northampton); Maryne Mutis, U de Lorraine, Fr); Karalee Kothe, (U Colorado)  (Catalina J)

Meditation & Global Spiritual Practices - Thomas Brophy, (CIHS/IONS); Deepak Chopra, (Chopra Global) Jeffery Martin (CIHS); Helané Wahbeh (IONS); Garret Yount (IONS) Hidehiko Saegusa (IIT Mandi, U AZ, CIHS, AABC); Arnaud Delorme (IONS); Timothy Laporte (CIHS); Sean Esbjörn-Hargens (CIHS); Sohail Shakeri (CIHS); Remote: Dean Radin (IONS) (Catalina KL)

Education in Consciousness Studies  - Laurel Waterman (U Toronto); Joan Walton (St. John U-York); Thomas Bever (U Arizona); Justin Riddle (FSU),  Sue Blackmore (U Plymouth); Emily Troscianko (U Oxford)  (Exec. board room)

SYMPOSIUM-MONDAY EVENING April 22, 2024 - 7:00-10:00 pm - Refreshments 

Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness - Symposium -   Christof Koch (Allen Institute, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Seattle); Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly & Matteo Grasso (U Wisconsin); Moderated by Paavo Pylkkänen (U Helsinki & U Skövde)  (Kiva)

TSC 2024 Tucson  - Conference Sessions by Day

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 

7:30 - 8:15 am  -  Meditation Wellness Kickoff  - Deepak Chopra -  Kiva Plaza  - Refreshments 

Conference Opening

PLENARY SESSIONS (Livestreamed)  - Kiva 

8:30 am - 10:40 am  - Plenary 1   'Detecting Consciousness'  -   STEVEN LAUREYS, CLAUDIA PASSOS, GINA POE  

11:10 am - 12:30 pm - Plenary 2  'Cortical Oscillations, Waves and Consciousness 1' -  EARL K. MILLER, Keynote  - remote

12:30-2:00 break

2:00 pm - 4:10 pm  - Plenary 3  ‘Consciousness and Reality'  - DONALD HOFFMAN, DEEPAK CHOPRA, PAAVO PYLKKÄNEN

4:10-5:00 BREAK

Tuesday 4/23   C 1 - C 10 Concurrents

C-1  IMPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE  - Ken Mogi, Jonathan Erickson, Bill Mensch, Rizwan Virk, Maria Howard, JF Pagel (Chair)(Catalina J) 

C-2  PARAPSYCHOLOGY & NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES - Fr. Nathan Castle, O.P., Marina Weiler, Terri Gilbert, Birgitta Therner, Nicole Johnson  (Grand Ballroom SALON D)

C-3  EXPERIENTIAL APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS - Roger Russell, Igor Nazarov, Raul Valverde, Carlton 'Perk' Clark, Timothy Laporte, Rubin Naiman (Chair) (Santa Rita)

C-4 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND  - Scott Ventureya, Scott Olsen, Jonathan Shear (Chair), Gustavo Rocha, John Strozier,  Patrick Schotanus  (SALON E) 

C-5 REPRESENTATION AND ACCESS MODELS OF MIND -  Roger C. Schriner, Susan Blackmore (Chair), Frank Heile, Matthew Williams, Roger Young, Rakenduvadhana Srinivasan (SALON F) 

C-6  GEOMETRY OF MIND - Mark Bailey/Susan Schneider, Andres Gomez-Emilsson, Elena Bezzubova, Uziel Awret (Chair), Jason Padgett  (Executive Board Room) 

C-7 QUANTIFYING COGNITIVE STATES IN NEURAL DATA - Logan Trujillo (Chair), Dimitri Van De Ville, William Bosl, Kira Dolhan, Sandeep Gupta (Sabino)

C-8 STUDYING SPIRITUALITY IN NEUROSCIENCE AND THERAPY - Stephen Zerfas, Marco Ruggiero (Chair), Master Zhi Gang Sha/Rulin Xiu, Olivia Giguere/Matthew Hicks, Kirit Goyal (SALON G) 

C-9  NEUROSCIENCE OF ALTERED STATES - Nicolas Glynos, Clayton Coleman, Nicholas Denomme (Chair), Gratiana Chen, Jeff Haller (SALON H)

C-10  QUANTIFYING ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Robert Tromm, Marjorie Woollacott (Chair), Jessica Corneille, Sebastian Ehmann, Mona Letourneau (SALON I)

6:30-9:00 pm  Welcome Reception - Cascade Terrace 

Wednesday April 24, 2024 

PLENARY SESSIONS  - Kiva Ballroom 

8:30 am -10:40 am - Plenary 4  'Cortical Oscillations, Waves & Consciousness 2'  - André BASTOS, PULIN GONG, DIMITRIS PINOTSIS  

11:10 am - 12:30 pm - Plenary 5  'The Global Brain' -  SUSAN SCHNEIDER, Keynote

12:30-2:00 break*

*12:30-1:30 pm  - Exhibitors & Demos

Arizona Astrobiology Center -  ANT-NEURO, Inc.  -  AAPS - Academy for Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences - COSMOintel -  Journal of Consciousness Studies - Megahertz Brain Waves -  PICER Institute - Radio Rumi Synaptic.care -   Tao Academy -   Timaeus Academy - Cusac.org  - Fr. Nathan Castle - Ultrabandwidth Praxis

afternoon plenary - wednesday

2:00 pm - 4:10 pm - Plenary 6   'CONSCIOUSNESS IN RELIGION AND ALTERED STATES', tanya luhrmann, JUSTIN RIDDLE, GEORGE MASHOUR   

Wednesday 4/24  C-11 - C-20 

5:00-7:00 pm Concurrent SeSSIONS & CHAIRS - WED 4/24 C-11 -C-20         20 min talks: 5 min Q&A  - Breakout Rooms:  Grand Ballroom Salons  D,E,F, G,H,I,  Catalina J, Catalina KL, Exec. Board Room, Santa Rita, Sabino

C-11  ANOMALOUS COGNITION  -  Helané Wahbeh (Chair), James Lake, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Arnaud Delorme, Milena Braticevic  (SALON D) 

C-12  CONSCIOUSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH  - Carsten Korth, Ingrid Fredriksson, Darja Kobal Grum, Jürgen Kornmeier (Chair), Criscillia Benford, Nina Carrubba (EXEC. BOARD ROOM)  

C-13  QUANTUM COM/PUTATION  - James Tagg (Chair), Akihiro Nishiyama, Mauricio Garrido/Vasyl Semenov, Roumiana Tsenkova, Mithun Paul, Rachid Lopez  (SANTA RITA)

C-14  INTEGRATED INFORMATION THEORY - Brian Archibald, Kelvin McQueen, Garrett Mindt, Isaac David, Matteo Grasso (Chair)  (SALON G) 

C-15  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE  - William Robinson, Tam Hunt (Chair), Karina Vold, Aida Elamrani, Vickram Premakumar, Jay Myers  (SALON H) 

C-16  TIME AND COGNITION - Laura Deutsch, Abdellatif Abujudeh, Joel Bennett (Chair), James Corrigan, Olivia Seidel (SALON I)

C-17  SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING CONSCIOUSNESS -Stephen Deiss, (Chair), Richard Morley, Steven Wingate, Seymen Atasoy, Staci Newmahr (SALON F) 

C-18  PHYSICS OF MIND - Florian Metzler, Gregory Horne, Amal Alachkar, William R Softky (Chair), Nir Lahav, Alon Retter, Xiaolin Ge  (SABINO)

C-19  NOVEL MODELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Donald Mender, Meijuan Lu, Christopher Tyler, Sean Clayton, Meir Weinstein, Deborah Kala Perkins  (SANTA RITA)  

C-20  PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS - Jenny Vanbergen, Teresa Nowak, Garrett Yount, Rocco Gennaro (Chair) Asher Soryl (SALON E)

WEDNESDAY 4/24   7:00-9:00 pm - Reception, Cash Bar - (Catalina KL)

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - ART TECH DEMOS, EXHIBITS, POSTERS - (Grand Ballroom Lobby; GB- B) 

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM -  POSTER SESSION 1 - WED

1.0  - Philosophy - William J. Cox, Richard Gill,  U.B. Lozano,  Steve Kercel/Mona Letourneau, George Goutos, Ramanujam Prakash, JEFF SUGAR

2.0  -  Neuroscience -  Kewei Chen, Ryo Sato, Pavel Kraikivski, Soosan Beheshti

3.0  - Cognitive Science & Psychology -  Antonio Zadra, Jin Ma, David Stone, Bruce Nappi, Malcolm Lett, Deni Van, Michael Kutch, Ruslana Remennikova/Bernard Beitman, Karalee Kothe

4.0  - Physical & Biological Sciences  - Richard Harrington, Peter Lugten, Steen Loeth, Steve Finette, Seungju Ahn, Georges Karma, Deanna Minich, James Beran, William Softky/Criscillia Benford

5.0  - Experiential Approaches  -   Joel Bennett, James Driessen, Palash Goyal, Carl Flygt, Karalee Kothe 

6.0  - Culture & Humanities  - Olga Colbert, Kevin Goodrich, Joan Walton, Laurel Waterman, Marianne Nell

Thursday, April 25, 2024

7:15-8:15 am - Experiential Clinics

PLENARY SESSIONS   - Kiva Ballroom 

8:30 am -10:40 am - Plenary 7  'Mechanisms of Consciousness'  - AARON SCHURGER, PIETER-JAN MAES, JEROME BUSEMEYER   

11:10 am - 12:30 pm- Plenary 8  'DoDecoGraphy ('DDG') – 12 Orders of Frequency Oscillations in EEG' - ANIRBAN BANDYOPADHYAY, Keynote 

*12:30-2:00  break

*12:30-1:30 Exhibits & Demos  GB Lobby

Art-Tech

afternoon plenary - thursday

2:00 pm - 4:10 pm - Plenary 9  ‘Astrobiology and Astroconsciousness’  - CALEB SCHARF, PHILLIPE SCHMITT-KOPPLIN, STUART HAMEROFF  - KIVA  

Free time

6:30-9:00 PM - Optional Dinner -  Ventana Terrace

FRIDAY April 26, 2024

7:15-8:15 am Early MORNING - Experiential Clinics

Soul Sickness & Healing Techniques - Master Zhi Gang Sha, Peter Hudoba, Rulin Xiu - Catalina KL

Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement® lessons. Roger Russell, Jeff Haller -Ventana 2nd Fl.

TennisCentric - Mark Valladares - Loews Tennis Courts

Rumi Healing Meditation -Sohail Shakeri  - Catalina J

Finding and Clearing the Emotional Roots of your Suffering - Douglas Tataryn - Santa Rita

Friday, April 26, 2024

PLENARY SESSIONS  - Kiva Ballroom 

8:30 am -10:40 am - Plenary 10  'Dual Aspect Monism'  - HARALD ATMANSPACHER, BILL SEAGER, DEAN RICKLES 

11:10 am - 12:30 pm - Plenary 11  'Molecules of Life & Consciousness from the Asteroid Bennu’ - DANTE LAURETTA, Keynote  

*12:30-2:00  break

2:00 pm - 4:10 pm - Plenary 12  'The Science of Consciousness - 30 Years On'  - Panel:  DAVID CHALMERS, SUSAN BLACKMORE, CHRISTOF KOCH, STUART HAMEROFF, PAAVO PYLKKÄNEN, Giulio Tononi

*12:30-1:30 pm Exhibitor & Demos

Arizona Astrobiology Center -  ANT-NEURO, Inc.   - AAPS - Academy for Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences   - COSMOintel   -   Journal of Consciousness Studies  -  Megahertz Brain Waves  - PICER Institute -  Radio Rumi - Synaptic.care  -  Tao Academy Timaeus Academy  - Cusac.org  -  Fr. Nathan Castle - Ultrabandwidth 

“The Artwork of Ayahuasquero, Pablo Amaringo”  - GB Lobby 

“Sound Medicine® – Binaural Beats “ -  Rincon  

Altered States...- Coronado 

afternoon plenary - friday

2:00 pm - 4:10 pm - Plenary 12  'The Science of Consciousness - 30 Years On'  - Panel:  DAVID CHALMERS, SUSAN BLACKMORE, CHRISTOF KOCH, STUART HAMEROFF, PAAVO PYLKKÄNEN, Giulio Tononi

Friday CONCURRENT Sessions 4/26  C-21-C-30

5:00-7:00 pm - ConcurrentS - FRIDAY -  C-21-C-30     20 min talks: 5 min Q&A  - Breakout Rooms:  Grand Ballroom Salons D,E,F, G,H,I, - Catalina J, Catalina KL, Exec. Board Room, Santa Rita, Sabino

C-21 QUANTUM THEORIES OF MIND - Phillise Todd, Peter Lloyd, Thomas Brophy (Chair), Anatoly Goldstein, Ivan Kuznetsov, Natalia Cortes  (CATALINA J)

C-22 MULTISCALAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY  - Asa Young, Bruce MacIver, Ryo Sato, Anthony Hudetz (Chair), Hide Saegusa (SALON D)  

C-23 PERCEPTION AND ATTENTIONAL CONTROL - Michael Silver, Cedric Cannard, Satya Pradhan, Nick Day (Chair), Sascha Seifert, Rahul Jain, Jeffery Martin  (SALON E)

C-24  CAUSALITY AND FREEWILL -Mihretu Guta, Edward Neafsey, Brian Key, Alain Morin, Lynn Rasmussen, John Sanfey (Chair) (SALON F)  

C-25 PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND - Lukasz Kurowski, Jenny Simon (Chair), Abre Fournier, Soosan Beheshti, Makayla Vermette, Famira Racy  (SALON G)

C-26 PANPSYCHISM AND GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS - Scott Ventureyra, Anand Rangarajan, John Starrett, Todd Bureau (Chair) Ulf Holmberg  (SALON H)

C-27 NEUROSTIMULATION TO UNDERSTAND THE MIND  - Sanjay Manchanda, Milan Pantovic, Brian Lord, Jay Sanguinetti, (Chair)  (SABINO)

C-28 MEDITATION PRACTICE TO UNDERSTAND THE MIND - Paul Dallaghan, Peter Hudoba/Master Sha, DoroteWeyers-Lucci, Lavanya Rajesh Kumar, Sky Nelson (Chair) (SANTA RITA) 

C-30 ALTERNATIVE MOLECULAR MODELS OF MIND - Farzad Ahmadkhanlou, Noushin Nabavi, Afshin Lorestani, Charles Ernst, Rajnish Khanna (Chair) (EXEC BOARD ROOM)

BREAK

7:00-9:00 pm - Reception, Cash Bar - Catalina KL

7:00 - 10:00 PM - FRIDAY - ART TECH DEMOS, EXHIBITS - Grand Ballroom Lobby & GB B

POSTER SESSION 2 - FRI -  Grand Ballroom B 

1.0   - Philosophy - Elena Drăghici-Vasilescu, Rajnish Khanna, Aaron Schmidt, Richard Blum, Enrique Chiu Han, Hiroki Yamada, Ann Berger-Knorr, Chris Percy, Frank Warzik, Mukesh Chauhan, Rodrigo Marchioli

2.0  - Neuroscience - Vipin Gupta, Scott Koshland, Anderson Rodriguez, Ludmila Vucolova

3.0  - Cognitive Science and Psychology - James Rutherford, Cedric Cannard

4.0  - Physical & Biological Sciences  - Mark Rindner, Anatoly Goldstein, Surendra Pokharna, David Smolker, Anderson Rodriguez, Antonius Laurijssen, Seungju Ahn

5.0  -   Experiential Approaches - Sandro Guerra, Charles Davis, Barbara With, Dwight Holbrook, Christine Simmonds-Moore

6.0  -  Culture & Humanities  - Steven Ferrara, Scott Lacy, Harland Harrison, Benjamin White

10 pm - xxx -  FRIDAY Poetry Slam - Zombie Blues - No-End of Consciousness Party  - Kiva.    refreshments/cash bar

Saturday April 27, 2024 

7:15-8:15 am Early MORNING - Experiential Clinics

PLENARY SESSIONS - Kiva Ballroom

9:00 am - 10:30 am - Plenary 13  'Dimensions, Wavefunctions & Symmetry in the Brain' - ZIRUI HUANG, SANTOSH HELEKAR, SIR ROGER PENROSE  

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - Plenary 14  'Searching for Consciousness & Entanglement in Cerebral Organoids' ALYSSON MUOTRI, HARMUT NEVEN  

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SPONSORS TSC 2024 - Thank you.

Arizona Astrobiology Center - Alvin J. Clark Foundation  - Anonymous  - Tiny Blue Dot Foundation  - University of Michigan  - Google Quantum AI  - Society for Mind-Matter Research - Sanmai Technologies  

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EVENTBRITE - TSC 2024 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION - Badges required  - STANDARD $550 STUDENT $450  -  Thur Dinner $95 -sold out (N/A)  REMOTE $250 - Live streaming: 3 workshops and 14 plenary 

LOEWS -  VENTANA CANYON RESORT - GROUP Block - $169 Per Night -  Group: The Science of Consciousness (The Resort Fee ($34) Is WAIVED) Conference Registration is needed to secure group rate. Hotel Address: 7000 N. Resort Dr. Tucson AZ   - Group Code: TSC330  - Group Rate  EXTENSION based on availability.  Group Rates Between:  April 17 -  May 1, 2024 
 

EXHIBITORS

Arizona Astrobiology Center    ANT-NEURO North America, Inc.   

AAPS - Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences    COSMOintel  

Megahertz Brain Waves    Journal of Consciousness Studies     Tao Academy  - Master Dr. Sha 

Timaeus Academy    Synaptic.care    Ultrabandwidth Praxis    Cusac.org    Radio Rumi   

PICER Institute Psycheprimus Institute for Cognitum Engineering Research Ltd.

Fr. Nathan Castle - Gems4Life - Book Signings

New Releases - Display copies, signings - Additional Demos Lunch Time and at both Poster Sessions (Wed and Fri evenings) 

Experiential Sessions - early mornings

Tuesday 4/23-7:15-8:00am - Meditation Wellness  - Kiva Plaza - Deepak Chopra  

Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat 7:15-8:15 am

TennisCentric - Mark Valladares -Tennis Courts (Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat) 7:15-8:15am

Global Spiritual Meditation  -Hidehiko Saegusa  - Catalina KL - Thur 4/25 - 7:15-8:15am

Healing Meditation - Sohail Shakeri  - Wed, Thurs, Fri - 4/ 24, 25, 26  - 7:15-8:15am -   (Catalina J)  

Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement® lessons -  Roger Russell, Jeff Haller - Wed, Thur, Fri  4/24, 25, 26 - 7:15 - 8:15am - (Ventana 2nd fl.)

Soul Sickness & Healing Techniques Master - Master Zhi Gang Sha, Peter Hudoba, Rulin Xiu - 7:15-8:15am - Locations: Wed 4/24  (Catalina KL)  -  Thur  4/25 (Exec Bd Rm)  - Fri  4/26  (Catalina KL)  -  Sat 4/27  (Catalina J) 

Finding and Clearing the Emotional Roots of your Suffering - Douglas Tataryn - Santa Rita Wed,  Thurs, Fri - Apr 24,25 26 

Van Z'xhibit, Michael Kutch - outdoors daily - GB Lobby  

Additional Thanks 

TSC Sponsors  - Plenary/Keynote - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Conference Team - Commotion Studios - UA BioMed - Exhibitors, Experiential Facilitators - Concurrent Speakers - Workshop Speakers, Poster Presenters - All Volunteers -    AZ Cine - UA SBS - Herod Travel - Additional co-organizers: Thomas Brophy, IONS/CIHS; Justin Riddle, FSU; Hidehiko Saegusa, IIT Mandi, CIHS, UArizona,AABC U Michigan, George Mashour, Stuart Hameroff, Dante Lauretta, Abi Montefiore

2024  TUCSON - 30th Annual

(‘TSC’), April 22-27, 2024  at the beautiful Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in the hills above Tucson, Arizona. The conference is hosted and sponsored by the University of Arizona, Center for Consciousness Studies  and co-sponsored by the University of Michigan, Center for Consciousness Science.  
 

Conferences |  since 1994

The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences are the pre-eminent world gatherings on all approaches to the profound and fundamental question of how the brain produces conscious experience, a question which addresses who we are, the nature of reality and our place in the universe. TSC conferences  have been held in Tucson since 1994, (every 2 years) and are recognized around the world. TSC International held its first conference in 1995 and continues in alternate years.

2024 Themes:  Cortical Oscillations and Traveling Waves; Psychedelics, Psychoplastogens; Astrobiology, Astroconsciousness; Dual Aspect Monism; Megahertz EEG and DoDecoGraphy (DDG); Theories of Consciousness; Consciousness and Reality; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Consciousness Detecting Consciousness; Microtubule Time Crystals; Searching for Consciousness and Entanglement in Cerebral Organoids; Brain Dimensions, Wavefunctions and Symmetry 

Conference Activities and Social Events TSC 2024

TSC 2024 will include plenary sessions, in-depth workshops, concurrent presentations, poster sessions, book and technology exhibits, health and wellness exhibitors.  Free time for swimming, hiking, and other resort activities. Sabino Canyon is approx. 3 miles from the Resort. Welcome Reception (Tues); Dinner (Thurs optional-tickets required); Poetry Slam (Fri)

The Science of Consciousness Conferences | since 1994

The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences are the pre-eminent world gatherings on all approaches to the profound and fundamental question of how the brain produces conscious experience, a question which addresses who we are, the nature of reality and our place in the universe.   

TSC conferences  have been held in Tucson since 1994, (every 2 years) and are recognized around the world. TSC International held its first conference in 1995 and continues in alternate years.

BIOS 2024

CONFERENCE CHAIRS - TSC 2024

STUART HAMEROFF

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Stuart Hameroff  Co-Founder, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies; Co-Chair, The Science of Consciousness; Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, U of Arizona, Stuart Hameroff MD is a clinical anesthesiologist and researcher on how the brain produces consciousness, and how anesthetics act to erase it. In medical school in the early 1970s, Hameroff became interested in consciousness, and in protein structures called microtubules inside brain neurons which he came to believe processed information supporting consciousness. In the mid- 1990s he teamed with Sir Roger Penrose to develop the controversial ‘Orch OR’ theory in which consciousness derives from “orchestrated” (“Orch”) microtubule quantum vibrations linked to processes in spacetime geometry, the fine scale structure of the universe, leading to “Penrose objective reduction” (“OR”, hence “Orch OR”). And he has further proposed the ‘microtubule quantum vibration’ theory of anesthetic action. Hameroff organizes the well-known conference series ‘The Science of Consciousness’, has written or edited 5 books and over a hundred scientific articles, and appeared in films and various TV shows about consciousness. With University of Arizona colleagues Jay Sanguinetti, John JB Allen and Shinzen Young, Hameroff is developing transcranial ultrasound (‘TUS’) for treatment of mental and cognitive dysfunction (TUS may resonate endogenous megahertz vibrations in brain microtubules). Penrose- Hameroff Orch OR is one of a group of major theories of consciousness in the Templeton World Charity Foundation project  ‘Accelerating Research on Consciousness’ and is currently being tested experimentally. (Jan 2024 New Scientist Feature Cover on Quantum Consciousness, G. Musser) (Plen 12)

https://hameroff.arizona.edu/

GEORGE MASHOUR

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George A. Mashour is an anesthesiologist and NIH-funded neuroscientist at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he serves as the Robert B. Sweet Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology. He founded and currently directs the Michigan Psychedelic Center, which is multidisciplinary and spans the University of Michigan. (Plen 6)

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Conference Activities and Social Events TSC 2024

TSC 2024 our 30th Annual will include plenary sessions, in-depth workshops, concurrent presentations, poster sessions, book and technology exhibits, health & wellness exhibitors, tenniscentric. Free time for swimming, hiking, and other resort activities. Sabino Canyon is approx 3 miles from the Resort. 

2024 Links 

ABSTRACTS - closed 

REGISTRATION - Conference (Eventbrite)

Please be sure to secure your conference registration so we can coordinate with your hotel reservation. Early Conference Registration through Feb. 10

LOEWS Ventana Canyon Resort - Group Reservation Link 

LOEWS Ventana Canyon Resort  - Tucson  $169 per night - Group Rate - The Deadline for this rate based on availability through March 29. Group Rates Cover Following Dates:  April 17 through May 1, 2024 - Conference CODE:  TSC330  Group Name:  The Science of Consciousness.  The Daily Resort Fee $34 is WAIVED for this group 

Loews Ventana Canyon, 7000 N. Resort Drive, Tucson, 85750

520-299-2020 

Loews Corporate 1-877-879-9979

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2022 The Science of Consciousness - Tucson

SESSION VIDEOS 2022  TSC-CCS YouTube Channel  

Program Book & Abstracts  TSC 2022   View 

Guest Interviews - TSC 2022 - Conscious Pictures  

20th Anniv and Assorted Videos

RetroMix of TSC Conferences

Consciousness Covid Online 2020

Penrose 2021 Nobel Prize - Intro Reel for TSC online program

Interview with Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff, ElsevierConnect, Feb 20, 2014 

Elsevier Interview with Nobel prize candidate Sir Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, Amsterdam, Feb 19, 2014 

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2023 - Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness - ENCINITAS 

California - Summer Symposium   August 18-20, 2023                 

(co-sponsors: CIHS & CCS)

PROGRAM - Document - AUG 16 Final Program.docx

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS - Doc- AUG 16 Abstracts by Acceptance Type Aug 16 Final Report Encinitas.docx

AUTHORS-AFFILIATIONS INDEX  - Document - AUG 16 Final Presenters + Affiliations Report Encinitas.docx

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