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Center for Consciousness Studies, UArizona  - The Science of Consciousness Conferences | since 1994

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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.

YouTube Videos - The Science of Consciousness Conferences and Special Programs: 2010-2023

THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS    30th Annual TSC  -  April 22-26, 2024   TUCSON, ARIZONA  

UPCOMING

The Science of Consciousness - 30th Annual 

April 22-26, 2024 Tucson AZ - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort


LOEWS Ventana Canyon Resort  - Tucson   
Group Hotel blocK (Loews) - link now open    
ABSTRACTS -  Submissions - now open   (due Dec 15)
Conference Registration: (Eventbrite) - Opens late September 2023

 

NEW RENOVATIONS: (The Canyon Grill, Club, Barrista) 

The Resort Fee ($34) is waived for this group.

 

TSC YOUTUBE CHANNEL - VIDEOS 

The Science of Consciousness Conferences and Special Programs: 2010-2023

RECENT SYMPOSIUM 

Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness 

August 18-20, 2023- ENCINITAS California - Summer Symposium (co-sponsors: CIHS & CCS) held at CIHS campus, Encinitas CA

Abstract Submissions - Encinitas -closed   Registration Eventbrite-closed
PROGRAM - Document

AUG 16 Final Program.docx

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS - Document

AUG 16 Abstracts by Acceptance Type Aug 16 Final Report Encinitas.docx

AUTHORS-AFFILIATIONS INDEX  - Document

AUG 16 Final Presenters + Affiliations Report Encinitas.docx

VIDEOS

PLENARY TALKS  

SHOWCASE TALKS  

SHORT TALKS  

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Center for Consciousness Studies YouTube Channel: 
The Science of Consciousness Conferences and Special Programs: 2010-2023
 

NEW: Taormina Italy Videos

https://youtube.com/@TSC2023-Taormina-qw2ie

Taormina Sicily May 22-28, 2023

 

Palazzo dei Congressi
Taormina Italy - TSC  2023 -May 22-28 - The Science of Consciousness YouTube Videos
PLENARY VIDEOS Taormina (31) - TSC 2023 Taormina YouTube  - Videos Page  
Taormina CONFERENCE PROGRAM     

The Tucson Conferences - Biennial    

Since 1994, the biennial series "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences now "The Science of Consciousness" are a landmark of international, interdisciplinary events sponsored by the University of Arizona devoted entirely to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness. They have explored the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and cognitive science, to neurobiology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, phenomenological accounts, and physics. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research.

 

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.  

Videos TSC and CCS Programs-Archive
YouTube 1 The Science of Consciousness Conferences & Programs: 2010-2023
Channel 2: UofA Consciousness  additional 2012

Stuart Hameroff MD, Anesth   CCS Director - COM-UA website

Abi Behar Montefiore - asst dir, sr. program

520-247-5785 text/messages   center@arizona.edu

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2023 - INTRO - Encinitas 
Encinitas Summer Symposium Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness
Despite vast detailed knowledge of the brain, neuroscience cannot 1) explain consciousness, memory, binding nor real time conscious action, 2) effectively treat Alzheimer’s or other brain disorders, nor 3) define our place in the universe. Why not? Oversimplified cartoon neurons. 'AI' has reinforced the notion of the brain as a complex computer of simple, empty, ‘cartoon’ neurons based on 1950s physiology, processing solely by surface membranes, synaptic transmissions and firings as “bit-like' units in frequencies up to 100 hertz. But deeper, faster, coherent and quantum non-local information processes in cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons regulate neuronal-level functions. Over the past 10 years, Anirban Bandyopadhyay has discovered coherent kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz resonance vibrations in microtubules, with megahertz and gigahertz detectable from human scalp. Aarat Kalra, Jack Tuszynski, Travis Craddock and others have shown quantum optical effects in microtubules are inhibited by anesthetics which selectively block consciousness.  The Penrose-Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ theory proposes consciousness depends on ‘orchestrated’ (‘Orch’) quantum superpositions leading to Penrose ‘objective reductions’ (‘OR’, wavefunction self-collapses) in brain microtubules, connecting to fundamental spacetime geometry. Orch OR has more explanatory power, connection to biology, and experimental validation than all ‘neuroscientific’ theories based on low frequency, oversimplified cartoon neurons combined. Neuroscience needs a revolution inward, to deeper, faster quantum processes in microtubules to understand consciousness and treat its disorders.
Thomas Brophy, CIHS          
Stuart Hameroff, CCS
Sponsors Mani Bhaumik, Google Quantum AI, Eugene Jhong, Center for Consciousness Studies, California Institute for Human Science, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vimal Research Society 

Exhibitors - Interchange Labs Inc., Valis Corp, Cosmointel Research, USD MePMoS Lab   

Special Thanks Encinitas Chamber of Commerce - Minuteman Press Encinitas - Encinitas Ballet Academy - Boochcraft Hard Kombucha - G's Ginger Beer

AV Daniel Barre, Realist Films 

Venue California Institute for Human Science - 701 Garden View Court - Encinitas, CA 92024

PST Aug 18, 2023 - 1:00p-6:30p - Aug 19, 9:00a-7:15p  - Aug 20 - 8:30a-6:00p 

Social Media    Twitter Message    Registration:  Eventbrite   - SOLD OUT

Presenters Uploading Files :  Google Drive NEW LINK for accepted presenters 
(MP4s only) - Updates to the Program will be posted on the CCS and CIHS websites, Eventbrite website and various media and social media sites

Additional Abstracts

Prof. Dr. Martin Joseph Dudziak:
 
 
Questions:  center@arizona.edu  attn: abi behar montefiore
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June 7th, 2023
15:00 - University of Oxford
Talk with Stuart Hameroff MD  

Mathematical Institute, Univ of Oxford Room L3 - Woodstock Rd. Oxford 0X2 6GG  
Neuroscience needs a revolution 
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Stuart Hameroff MD
Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology
Director, Center for Consciousness Studies
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2022.869935/full

https://omcan.web.ox.ac.uk/event/neuroscience-needs-revolution.


TAORMINA-TSC 2023

PLENARY SESSIONS  

NEW VIDEOS
 https://youtube.com/@TSC2023-Taormina-qw2ie

The Science of Consciousness Conference 2023

Program/Abstracts

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Palazzo dei Congressi
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The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences have been held annually since 1994, alternating yearly between Tucson, Arizona in even-numbered years, and other locations around the world in odd-numbered years. TSC locations have included Italy, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, California, Switzerland, and Finland.  The 29th annual TSC will return to Italy, to beautiful Taormina, on the island of Sicily, May 22-28, 2023, organized by Italian professors Riccardo Manzotti (IULM U), Antonio Chella (U Palermo) and Pietro Perconti (U Messina). TSC 2023 Taormina will be co-sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Stuart Hameroff, Director. The first overseas TSC Conference in 1995 was on the island of Ischia, near Naples, Italy, organized by Cloe Taddei-Ferretti. We are excited to be returning to Italy. Abstracts may be submitted for oral concurrent talks, or posters.
TAORMINA TSC 2023 CONFERENCE PROGRAM  
Workshops    Keynote and Plenaries.    Concurrents    Posters
Contact: Registration - Anna Lucentini - tsc2023@bisazzagangi.it
Contact at CCS - Abi Behar Montefiore - center@arizona.eduwww.consciousness.arizona.edu
     

THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Science of Consciousness Conference 2022  Tucson - Hybrid  
TSC Apr 18-22, 2022  
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SESSION VIDEOS 2022  TSC-CCS YouTube Channel  

Program Book & Abstracts  TSC 2022

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THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Covid Consciousness - Remote - Online MST

Online

Sessions, Abstracts: 


THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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2018 Conference Themes:
Are We Living in a Matrix-like Simulation? - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Consciousness
Consciousness, Pain and Addiction - Gene Editing and Consciousness
Binding, Integration and Synthesis of Consciousness - Brain Mapping and the Connectome
Anterior and Posterior Cortex: What's 'Hot' and What's Not? - Anesthetic and Psychoactive Drugs
Language and Consciousness - Non-Invasive Brain Modulation
Origin and Evolution of Life and Consciousness - Panpsychism, Idealism and Spacetime Geometry
Quantum Brain Biology  - Time, Free Will and Consciousness

Early Center Videos/Podcasts through 2016

apple itunes podcasts are being uploaded to our YouTube Channel

 


THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

2017  TSC -   The Science of Consciousness - San Diego

THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
JUNE 5-10, 2017
Hyatt Regency Hotel - La Jolla - San Diego, California
 
2017  Plenary Sessions
                 Science of Consciousness                       

San Diego Conference
Additional Workshops

Roger Penrose, Joscha Bach, Harmut Neven
Thomas Bever, Michael Spivey, Noam Chomsky
Matthew Fisher, Travis Craddock
Vince Clark, John Allen, Marvin Berman, Michael Rohan
Ivette Fuentes, Brian Keating, James Tagg
Elaine Chew, Scott Makeig
Stephen Grossberg, Georg Northoff, Philip Low
Daniel Sheehan, Peter Fenwick, Lakhmir Chawla
Leon Chua, Jack Tuszynski
Gentry Patrick, VS Ramachandran, Charles Stevens
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Jonathan Schooler, Erick Viirre
Xu Yingjin, Deepak Chopra*
Bruce Damer, Alysson Muotri, Stuart Hameroff

Additional Workshops:

*Dayalbagh Educational Institute DEI East West Forum - June 5, 2017
 
Interviews:
 
Photos:
Brad Buhr and Noah Buhr, Photographers
 

Thank you to our sponsor Alvin J. Clark Foundation for support in making these videos available to the general public.

 

Additional Video with Speakers and Guests
Workshops - Videos

facebook@scienceofconsciousnessconferences
 
THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
2016 Tucson ARIZONA
The Science of Consciousness, April 25-30, 2016 - Tucson
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2016  Co-Sponsors
Stuart Hameroff, Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson
George Mashour, Center for Consciousness Science, Ann Arbor
Conference Director, Abi Behar Montefiore
Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson
 
2016 -TSC April Tucson
2016 CONFERENCE MEDIA FILES
 
Program Book
 
Conference Trailer 2016
TSC Playlist
Daily round up-

TSC 2016 IN THE NEWS

Is Carnival of the Mind
by George Johnson ​

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
"Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 1
"Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 2
"Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 3
"Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 4 

by John Horgan

JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES

2016/Conference Report. 226, All Roads Lead to Consciousness:

The Science of Consciousness, Tucson 2016. Logan T. Trujillo ...
Science of Consciousness TSC, Loews Ventana Canyon Hotel Tucson, Tucson -
April 25-30, 2016 
 

2016 - TSC -Media files

Final Announcement March 31, 2016
"The Science of Consciousness Asks Big Questions" April 12, 2016 AHSC Memo 
2016 Abstracts Program Book 
Consciousness Central TV Conference Trailer 2016
TSC Playlist Consciousness Central TV 
Nick Day, Host Daily round up  


2014 20th Anniversary 

It was 20 years ago today
Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson AZ
Conscious Chronicles 4  Interview with Sir Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff  
 
2 0 1 4  Tucson ARIZONA
"Tucson X1" - April 21-26, 2014, Marriott - University Park
University of Arizona, co-chaired by
Stuart Hameroff and David Chalmers
Abi Behar Montefiore, Conference Manager
Toward a Science of Consciousness 
Organized & Hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies 
Concurrents       
Posters        
Brain Mapping Symposium
UA College of Medicine Auditorium
Sponsored by The Center for Consciousness Studies
 

 

war of world views
Deepak Chopra
Leonard Mlodinow
Sue Blackmore
iTunes  - disabled 

ADDITIONAL MEDIA FILES 2008-2014

 

ADDITIONAL MEDIA FILES 2008-2014

Tucson Vintage - Archive-early days 1994-2007

Vimeo Selections: 

https://vimeo.com/103844731  
https://vimeo.com/104437953  
https://vimeo.com/104630953  
https://vimeo.com/103148100 


The Tucson Conferences - Biennial    

Since 1994, the biennial series "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences are a landmark of international, interdisciplinary events sponsored by the University of Arizona devoted entirely to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness. They have explored the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and cognitive science, to neurobiology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, phenomenological accounts, and physics. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research.


2 0 1 2  Tucson ARIZONA   

TSC 2012 image

Dave Cantrell

2012, Toward a Science of Consciousness- The 10th Biennial, "Tucson X"  - April 9-14, 2012, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort   
 

2011 Stockholm SWEDEN

Program/Abstract Book


2 0 1 0  Tucson ARIZONA

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The 9th biennial  Toward a Science of Consciousness
TUCSON ARIZONA TSC 2010
2010, Toward a Science of Consciousness, "Tucson IX"   -
April 12-17, 2010, Tucson Convention Center

2010 Special Seminar - Microtubules


ADDITIONAL MEDIA FILES 2008-2014

freado

Archives

Oldies But Goodies

Moral Phenomenology

Workshop

Wrap-Up

Consciousness in Copenhagen

Picture Slide Show by Robert van Gulick


ADDITIONAL MEDIA FILES 2008-2014


2 0 0 8 Tucson ARIZONA
"Tucson VIII"  
April 8-12, 2008, Tucson Convention Center

artwork: Dave Cantrell, BioMed, AHSC, UMC

2006, Toward a Science of Consciousness,  "Tucson VII"  -April 4-8, 2006, Tucson Convention Center
2004, Toward a Science of Consciousness,   "Tucson VI"  -April 7-11, 2004, Tucson Convention Center
2002, Toward a Science of Consciousness,   "Tucson V"   -April 8-12, 2002, Tucson Convention Center
2000, Toward a Science of Consciousness,  "Tucson IV"  - April 10-15, 2000, Tucson Convention Center
1998, Toward a Science of Consciousness,   "Tucson III" -April 27-May 2, 1998, University of Arizona
1996, Toward a Science of Consciousness,   "Tucson II"  -April 8-13, 1996, University of Arizona
1994, Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness, "Tucson I"  -April 12-17, 1994, University of Arizona   

 


Quantum Mind Conferences

Quantum Mind 1

Flagstaff, AZ 1999


Quantum Mind Conferences
Tucson, AZ 2003

Quantum Mind 2003

QM2 The second Quantum Mind conference was held in March 2003 at the Tucson Convention Center. - Over 300 participants attended.

1999 QM-1 Quantum Approaches Program

QM1 Quantum Mind Conference 1999 - The first Quantum Mind conference was held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona in August 1999 Over 100 participants attended.


Quantum Mind List Serv Discussions - QuantumMind Archives

The Quantum Mind Archives documents the messages and
discussions that occurred via the Quantum Mind List Serv Discussions
that ran actively from 1998-2001.
Search or Browse the Archives 
 

 

 
Selected papers published by MIT Press
Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates,1996

 

Toward a Science of Consciousness
1996  "Tucson II"         
April 8-13, 1996
University of Arizona

Abstracts plus Reviews 

 

The first volume of Toward a Science of Consciousness is now considered a resource book for the emerging field. This volume presents a selection of invited ...

 

Complete program including abstracts/ Selected papers published by MIT Press

http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262581813/ 

 

EARLY PRESS

Toward a New Science of the Mind:
Tucson 1996 consciousness

Clippings

Co-Sponsored Conferences

Poetry Slam/Zombie Blues

Consciousness Bulletins

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