Center for CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES

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The science of consciousness   since 1994  

BARCELONA Website  The Science of Consciousness Conference 2025 BARCELONA

Festival of Consciousness 2025 Barcelona website

Center for Consciousness Studies  

PDF program schedule and e-book abstracts 

JULY 9  PDF - PROGRAM & Abstracts UPDATED VERSION 

 TSC Conference Tickets are Sold Out 

Followed by Festival of Consciousness  July 12-13  (The Festival is adjacent to the new "Leonardo Royal" Forum Barcelona Hotel on the  “Plaza Leonardo da Vinci”) 

Conference VENUE:  New Name/Same Address:   AC Forum Marriott -Passeig Taulat 278  -  has become "Leonardo Royal" Forum Barcelona, passeig Taulat 278  - Taxis may still refer to the hotel as the AC Forum - eventually they will refer to it as Leonardo Forum -the address is the same    Pg. (Passeig) del Taulat, 278, Sant Martí, 08019 Barcelona, Spain, 08019 Barcelona +34 934 898200

Link Portal for Livestream pre-registration     150 euros; 14 Plenary sessions and 3 workshops  (info@fundaciohumanitas.org)  Discount Code: TSC2025BCN - 15% student discount  - All sessions will be posted on the platform and you will be able to access them on-demand at any time.

The Science of CONSCIOUSNESS Conference TSC-2025 Barcelona

The science of consciousness   since 1994  

CCS Website    S. Hameroff website  YouTube Channel   Facebook CCS-TSC Join TSC E-list  center@arizona.edu   text: 520.247-5785    2026 Tucson Registration

Conference Tickets - Sold Out 

TSC Conference - July 6-11 /Registration- All presenters and general registrants must purchase a registration. Receipts will be auto-sent. Name Badges will be required and will be waiting at the conference registration desk. Conference Registration Fees:  Standard $600   Student $350 (includes festival pass)  Workshops, Plenaries, Posters, Concurrents, Exhibits, Demos, Social, Poetry Slam (info: center@arizona.edu)  - TSC Conference Tickets are Sold Out  -  www.consciousness.arizona.edu 

Festival of Consciousness - Barcelona   (July 12, 13) Tickets available  Music, Art, Experiential, Inspiration,  Spirituality, Education - adjacent to hotel venue: AC Forum Marriott Barcelona- Plaza Leonardo da Vinci, 08019, Barcelona, España. A festival pass is included with a TSC Conference ticket. (info@fundaciohumanitas.org)

TSC 2025 Conference Program Outline 

Pre-Conference Workshops:  Sun July 6 - morning 9 am-1 pm, afternoon  2-6 pm & evening sessions 7:00-10:00 pm

Plenary:  Mon July 7 - Fri July 11  (see schedule) 

Concurrents: Mon July 7- Thurs July 10 - 5:00 -7:30 pm

Poster: Mon July 7 to Wed July 9- 7:30-10:00 pm

Exhibitors: Daily  -  Coffee/Refreshments: Daily tba

Early Morning Experiential  July 7-11 - 7:00-8:15 am 

Meditation - Deepak Chopra  Fri July 11 - 7:30-8:30 am

Poetry Slam/End of Consciousness Thurs July 10- 8:00 pm - xxx

Poster Sessions

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Poster Dimensions -  1m wide x 2m high  /  3 ft wide x 6 ft high  - these are zig-zag poster boards. Posters must be applied with tape (not thumbtacks or pins) tape available

local printers:

• https://vibeimpressio.com/ 

• https://www.graficcentre.com/en/  they print scientific posters. 25 min in public transport from Hotel AC Forum. Free shipping for purchases over 60€

• https://lagranimpressio.com/  

There is no printer at the Venue. The majority of presenters are bringing their own posters.

Post Conference Reflection and Survey Additional information in Program PDF -  Compare changes between  TSC  - 1996 and 2025 

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2025 Partners  

Local Organizers -  Instituto de Neurociencia Avanzada de Barcelona (INAB) - The Festival of Consciousness 

University of Arizona Astrobiology Center - University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies - University of Arizona SEMA Lab- DDG Dodecanogram - IONS - Nirvanic Technologies - The Consciousness Foundation - Neuroelectrics Barcelona -  Sanmei  - PeakNeuro - StarLab Living Science -  International Space Federation - Tiny Blue Dot Foundation  -  VieLight -  IOMED.it - Puzzle X - Atma Buti - NOW N ZEN

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Exhibitors - Daily 

7:30-10:00 pm (Mon, Tues, Wed) and Daily between sessions

Nivanic Technologies  -  PeakNeuro - NE Neuroelectrics/Star Lab - Vielight - Sema-Sanmei -  IIT Mandi - IONS  -  International Space Federation -  DDG - IOMED.it -  Atma Buti/Serenity Tibet 

Researchers:   M. Slater,  A. Bandyopadhyay. (DDG) -  J. Sanguinetti (SEMA + (Sanmei)

Art/Tech/Health: S. Shreshan,  A. Rudin, S. Herrouet,  J. Park 

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 belowThe 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

Alternative hotel options

Princess Barcelona
Enter promotional code TSCC2025 for a 10% discount on standard rate - directly across from the AC Forum Barcelona Marriott

Hilton Diagonal Mar

There is only one international airport in Barcelona which is 13 km outside of the city center. The name of this airport is called Aeroport de Barcelona-El Prat, Aeroport de Barcelona (Catalan) or Aeropuerto de Barcelona (Spanish) and has the initials BCN.

Taxi - The fastest way to arrive from the airport to the hotel is by taxi  (30 minutes approx. 40-50 € approx.

Public Transport - There is also the option of using public transport (+1h) taking bus or Train to the city centre and change to metro or tram lines. Find out more information on this link

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 - Abi Behar

Contact/Info:  center@arizona.edu

2025 Credits - Revised Graphic:  Gaudi's Brain 

 credit:  Hugo Barbera

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2026 TSC LINKS 

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SAVE THE DATE - TSC  2026 -  TUCSON, ARIZONA

      The Science of CONSCIOUSNESS| 

April 6-11, 2026  - 32nd annual since 1994

WORKSHOPS, PLENARIES, CONCURRENTS, EXHIBITS, DEMOS, POSTERS, POETRY SLAM

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson Arizona USA   

2026 LINKS   

Abstracts:  Oxford Abstracts Submission Link for TSC 2026

Deadline: November 1, 2025   
Notifications: November 10-30

Venue:  Loews Ventana Canyon Resort - Group Block                       for TSC 2026 registrants. Deadline for group rate: March 13​

Conference Registration:  via Eventbrite

Early Registration Deadline: December 20   Standard: $550   Student (ID required $450)

Workshops held  on Monday April 6 – TBD 

Late Registrations - post December 20th 

Updates will be provided - Please inquire.

Sponsors/Exhibit info 

Workshop Proposals - Email 

INFO: center@arizona.edu    

Visa Letters and Letters of invitation must be requested by December 15 

Committee:

Member List will be posted on the conference committee CCS website [http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu] 

Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona; Center for Consciousness Studies; Dante Lauretta, University of Arizona, Astrobiology

Join TSC E-list   /   CCS-TSC Website  /  YouTube Channel - Archives | CCS-TSC

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   
Center email: center@arizona.edu     
Abi Behar Montefiore, Asst. Dir.; Sr. Prgm. Mgr. 
Stuart Hameroff, Director  - hameroff.arizona.edu

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upcoming: The Summer of '25

 JUNE 17-20  2025 - Rome, Italy

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

Faith and Science Conference
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.

Summer of ‘25

https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/WucVCGwNLJTWPrXnlCKfRfB3xmZ?domain=google.com

Quantum Mysteries, Consciousness I New Frontiers Ep. 7 - YouTube

YouTube

... Stuart Hameroff to discuss his profound theory of quantum consciousness. World's Fastest Electron Microscope The Guinness World Record for .. Nova PBS 

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Announcement 

2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition "Consciousness" 

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Spring of '25

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Physics of Consciousness

James Tagg, Stuart Hameroff, Joscha Bach, Suzanne Gildert 

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Science 

Pop Mech Pro: Science

This Doctor Says He Knows How the Brain Creates Consciousness. New Evidence Suggests He’s On to Something.

TUCSON - TSC 2026 Apr 6-11

Join TSC E-list   /   CCS-TSC Website  /  YouTube Channel - Archives | CCS-TSC

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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NEW - Articles, Meetings

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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   
Center email: center@arizona.edu     
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   

archives: 

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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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

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Historical Clips and Consciousness Central Interviews  

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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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Archives 2024 

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

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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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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