THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS | TSC 2020
TSC Consciousness Conference
Dates: September 14-18, 2020
Time: 7 am to midnight MST
ONLINE / Livestream + On-Demand
Concurrent Sessions - ABSTRACTS
Concurrent Sessions / Authors / Abstract Titles
C1: Concepts of Consciousness
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday September 15th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: William S. Robinson
William S. Robinson, Dis-illusioning Experience (MODERATOR-ZOOM DISCUSSION)
Jakub Mihalik, Panqualityism, Awareness and the Explanatory Gap
Adam Safron, Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT): Combining Integrated Information and Global Workspace Theories with the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework
Frank Heile Ph.D., An Explanation of Consciousness
Nikolaus Von Stillfried, Juxtaposing David Bohm's 'New Theory of the Relationship of Mind and Matter' and Russelian Monism In Order to Make Progress on the Problem of 'Direct Phenomenal Concepts'
C2: AI / Machine Consciousness 1
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: Lenore Blum
Antonio Chella, Robot Self-consciousness By Inner Speech and Mental Images Generation
Andrew Knight, Refuting Algorithmic Consciousness: Why Mind Uploading and Conscious Computers are Impossible
Lenore Blum, What Can Theoretical Computer Science Contribute to the Discussion of Consciousness?
Daniel Montoya, Selfhood and Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence
Steven Schkolne, The Attention Schema of Linux
Mihretu Guta, Artificial Intelligence and Metaphysical Limitations with Implications for the Nature of the Self and the Phenomenal Consciousness
Florian Habermacher, Illusionism as Underappreciated Risk of AI? - Does AI Lure People to Illusionism and Undermine Altruism and Society?
C3: Idealism, Panpsychism and Neutral Monism
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd, Idealism and Space-time: Relativistic Constraints on the Interface Between Mind and Physical Construct Within Mental Monism
Craig DeLancey, Consciousness as Sampling of an Information-Dense Environment
Kao-Cheng Huang, Karmic Space-time In Consciousness
Michael Silberstein, Jamesian Neutral Monism: All of the Perks of Panpsychism with None of the Headaches
Gerard Blommestijn, How in the Penrose-Hameroff Paradigm the Forms of Space-time Curvatures Can be Connected with the Eternal Platonic Ideas or Forms in the Qualia of our Experiences and Choices
Sydney Lamb, The Field of Consciousness as a Network of Relationships: Support for Idealism from Theoretical Linguistics
Seymen Atasoy, Idealism in Consciousness Studies, Dominant Cultural Narratives, and Social Change
C4: Neural Correlates of Consciousness 1
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: Logan Trujillo
Oleg Soloviov, Towards The General Brain Activity Theory (gbt): Seven Principles of Informational Activity of the Brain by Means of Phenomenon of Consciousness
Melia Bonomo, Modularity Allows Classification of Human Brain Networks During Music and Speech Perception
Gabriele Penazzi, Functional Brain Activity in Altered States of Consciousness Induced By Mechanical Stimulation of the Olfactory Epithelium
Jessica Knoetzele, Do we perceive the world differently if we need to evaluate our percept? - an EEG study
Logan Trujillo, Objective Self-awareness and Predictive Coding: A Useful Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Role of Consciousness in Violent Behavior
Rajnish Khanna, A Unifying Theory of Consciousness Involving Psychoactive Molecules as Informational Signaling Mechanisms
Dongju Yang, The hierarchy system of functional human brain revealed by intracranial electroencephalography.
Yuta Nishiyama, What is a Difference Between Disownership Feeling and Loss of Ownership Feeling Over One's Own Body?
C5: Ketamine and Consciousness
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: Scott Shannon
Mitchell Head, Analgesic Effects of Ketamine Versus Its Novel Analogue, SN35210: Insights from Tail-flick Responses and Brain Activation in Rats
Jennifer Montjoy, Inducing Non-ordinary States of Consciousness in Psychiatry: Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy
Thomas Varley, The Differential Effects of Propofol and Ketamine on Discrete State-Transition Dynamics in the Brain
Scott Shannon, Gamma Synchrony, Ketamine and the Shaping of Consciousness
Raquel Bennett, Paradigms of Ketamine Treatment: Biochemical, Psychological, and Psychedelic
C6: Education
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair: Leslie Allan Combs
Donna Thomas, Who am I? Exploring the nature of self, experience and reality with children
Anton Sukhoverkhov, Social Memory and The Origin of Human Nature
Scott Koshland, Application of the Principles of Learning Theory to the Organization and Development of Living Systems (life) and Consciousness.
Cody Kaneshiro, Validating Participant's Skill in Apprehending Inner Experience Using Descriptive Experience Sampling: Do Participants Become More Skilled Over Time?
Maria Kasmirli, The Role of Imagination in Teaching Philosophy and the Philosophy of Consciousness
Fatima Alaoui, Can School Become Therapeutic?
C7: Time and Consciousness
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair: Stephen Deiss
Justin Riddle, Nested Observer Windows (NOW): A Theory of Scale-free Cognition
Francoise Tibika, It's About Time
John Sanfey, Time is the Key to Physical Laws of Consciousness
Ronald Gruber, From Physical Time to a Dualistic Model of Human Time
Stephen Deiss, Is Consciousness or Time Real? "It's About Time" - We were careful what we reify.
Jürgen Kornmeier, Using the Perceptual Past to Predict the Perceptual Future Influences the Consciously Perceived Present - A Novel ERP Paradigm
Joe Campbell, Libet Experiments & Free Will Denialism
Jeff Tollaksen, A New Approach to 'Becoming Time' part 1
Gurucharan Khalsa, A New Approach to Becoming Time, part 2
C8: Quantum Biology
Live Zoom discussion Tuesday 15, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: Aarat Kalra
Chris Rourk, Indication of Quantum Mechanical Electron Transport in Human Substantia Nigra Tissue From Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy Analysis.
Majid Beshkar, The Qbit Theory of Consciousness
Glen Rein, A New Model of Consciousness Based on Virtual Photons Generated from Phase Conjugation in the Brain
Gregory Scholes, Quantum effects in biology?
Daya Krishnananda, Probing the non-classicality of the biological system of NP corona using classical electrodynamic experiments in GHz range
Christoph Simon, Could quantum entanglement help explain consciousness?
WEDNESDAY Sept 16
C9: Medicine / Healing
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept. 16th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: Garrett Yount
Broc Pagni, Mindfulness Training Alters Neural Activity During Self-reflection: Treating Depression Symptomatology in Adults with Autism
Michael Kutch, Attention Without Thought & Being Fully Alive
Mac Davis, Crispr Consciousness: Gene Splicing Your Bodymind for Health and Happiness
Garret Yount, Measuring Effects of Biofield Therapies in the Laboratory: A Pilot Study Focused on Pain Alleviation
Behrouz Radnassab, The Effect of Fara-darmani Consciousness Filed on the Survival and Death of Breast Cancer MCF7 Cells
Ingrid Fredriksson, Epigenetics Control Health and Disease and Consciousness Influence Epigenetics
Shantilal Goradia, The Implications of our Research on Alzheimer's/consciousness
C10: Panpsychism
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept. 16th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: Uzi Awret
Nino Kadic, Dynamic Selves: An Outline for a New Type of Panpsychism
Uziel Awret, Ads/cft Duality and the Meta-challenge
Ethan Makulec, Panpsychism and the Physics of Consciousness: IIT, Orch-OR, and the Combination Problem
Gregory Miller, On the Possibility of a Mereological Argument Panpsychism
Brian Archibald, Realizing Consciousness Through the Model of Physiophenomenalism
C11: Hard Problem
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept. 16th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: Anand Rangarajan
Brian Key, Pain in fish and molluscs - why the multiple realisability argument fails
Paulo Negro, A Blueprint for the Hard Problem of Consciousness: The self is void and the mind its avatar
Jeremy Sherman, Stumped by the Hard Problem? First Things First: An Introduction To Deacon's Teleodynamic Explanation for Unconscious Effort - The Struggle for Existence.
Bryce Bearden, On the Referent of the Term "Phenomenal Consciousness"
Carlos Acosta, Mind, Matter and Phenomenal Experience
Eric Sabin, Is Consciousness a "Field"?
Ben Meyer, The Lure of Consciousness
Krzysztof Dolega, What Do Illusionists Mean When They Talk About "what-it-is-likeness" of Conscious Experience?
Christian Dietmar Schade, Revisiting Consciousness Within Quantum Mechanics: Executing Free Will Via Vectorial Choices in the Clustered-Minds Multiverse
Anand Rangarajan, Modeling Strawson's Thin Subjects Using Category Theory
C12: Phenomenology and Consciousness
Live Zoom discussion Friday Sept 18th , 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: Alex Dayer
Alex Dayer, Attention and Mind-wandering In Skilled Behavior: An Argument for Pluralism
Quentin Raffaelli, Quantifying the Stream of Consciousness: An Empirical Investigation into the Emergence and Dynamics of Thought
Milena Braticevic, Psychophysiological Effects of Increasing Awareness of Nondual Consciousness and the Natural State in Young Adults with Depression And Anxiety
Jac O'Keeffe, How to Approach Phenomenal Consciousness
Ian Kanair, States of Consciousness: Phenomenological Data and Biophysical Concurrences within Many Worlds Interpretations
C13: Ontology of Consciousness 1
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept. 16th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: Kristjan Loorits
Kristjan Loorits, Phenomenality As A Perspectival Artefact
Scott Olsen, Plato's Golden Numbering System: Biometric Anomalies, Abduction and the Ontological Roots of Consciousness
An Chin Chen, There is No Free Will, Only Will to Freedom
James Beichler, A Comprehensive New Paradigm for Consciousness: From Sensations of the External World to Neural Correlates, Whole-brain Coherence and the Whole Cosmos
J. Scott Jordan, Wild Systems Theory as a 21st Century Coherence Ontology for the Science of Consciousness
C14: Quantum Brain Theories
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday 16th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: Donald Mender
James Tagg, Interaction Between Quantum Mechanics And General Relativity Might Lead To Non-computable Processing In The Brain.
Akihiro Nishiyama, Memory Formations in Non-equilibrium Quantum Brain Dynamics
Donald Matthew Mender, Q-deformed Physics and Effective Psychophysics
Thomas Brophy, A-theory: Toward a Quantum-physics-friendly Ontology of Free Will
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Defining Orch: Dodecanion geometric algebra and space-time-topology-prime metric
Jan Walleczek, False-positives in the Radin Double-slit Experiment on the Psycho-physical Effects of Observer Consciousness
C15: Neural Correlates of Consciousness 2
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept. 16th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair: James Broadway
Hyoungkyu Kim, Criticality as a Determinant of Integrated Information - In Human Brain Networks
Hisashi Murakami, Anticipatory collective human behavior: Path-seeking of pedestrians through a crowd
Javier A. Galadi, Energy Landscape Of The Whole-brain Dynamics In Coma, Vegetative States, And Related Disorders
Alexander Egoyan, Two Complementary Models of Human Perception: Two-dimensional Holographic and Three-dimensional Realistic and Relationship between Them
Yicong Lin, EEG and Functional MRI-guided Simultaneous Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in a Patient with Minimally Conscious State
Andrea de Paiva, Multisensory Experience Contributions to Unimodal Consciousness: The Importance of Architecture in the Discussion
Cedric Cannard, A Big-data Study of Well-being and its EEG Correlates
Ksenia Toropova, The effects of traumatic experience on behavior, neuronal activity, and functional connections in the conscious mouse brain resting state networks
C16: Evolution and Consciousness
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept.16th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: James Beran
Kasey Markel, Pavlov's Plants? Not So Fast.
James Beran, Bolder and Better, But Not Simpler: Protein interaction hypotheses for evolution of consciousness
Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Quantum Evolution Caught in Action: Why and How Specific Adaptations of Major Plant Divisions are Similar to Chordata Vertebrata Classes Adaptations
Daniel Beal, Panspermia and Consciousness
C17: Psychedelics and Mystical Experiences
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday Sept. 16th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair: Carl Johan Calleman
Rosemary Flickinger, Benefits of Mindful Metaphor in Connection with Preparation for Psychedelic Sessions
Jeffrey L. Beck, The Mystic in the Machine: An Interpretation of Mystical Experience Through the Lens of Controls Engineering.
Kimberly McCann, "As Raw As It Can Be, Like Vulnerable and Unapologetic": A Qualitative Study of Mystical Experience in Ordinary Life
Michael Landis, Bewyldering ... The Entropic and Psychedelic Capacity (the Neural and Noetic Complexification Capacity) of Cognitive Pedagogical/Learning Regimes and Course Design in Higher-Ed.
Adele Lafrance, Family-based Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy: Innovations in Research and Practice
Thomas Ray, Sex in the Time of Plague: Awakening Melatonin Into the Entourage
Carl Johan Calleman, Introducing Macrocosmic Quantum Theory to Explain How Psychedelics Work
FRIDAY
C18: Ontology of Consciousness 2
Live Zoom discussion Friday Sept. 18th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 1, Chair: Riccardo Manzotti
Anton Kuznetsov, Ontological Justice for Consciousness
Garrett Mindt, Developing a Robust Neutral Monism: A Conjunction of Neutral Monism and Information-theoretic Structural Realism
Riccardo Manzotti, The Mind-object Identity Hypothesis
Roger Christan Schriner, The Annotated Mind: Knowing Our Experiences the Instant They Occur
Mark Pharoah, From Biological Mechanism to Meaning
Adrienne Prettyman, The Philosophical Significance of Diffuse Attention
David Murphy, Explanation and the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition: Scouting a Way Forward
Luis Favela, Extended Cognition? Yes. Extended Consciousness? No.
C19: Neural Correlates of Consciousness 3
Live Zoom discussion Friday Sept. 18th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: TBA
William Bosl, A Data-driven approach to measuring conscious and unconscious brain function
Kenneth Kishida, Ultra-fast Monitoring of Neurotransmitter Micro-fluctuations During Choice and Subjective Experience in Humans
Vincent Zarcone Jr, The Neuroscience of Concepts and Consciousness
Konstantin Anokhin, Neuronal Encoding of Awareness for Type and Place of Objects in Young and Old Mice
Mark Valladares, Proprioceptive Feel as a Summation of Oscillatory Resonance
Isaac Christian, Alterations in Connectivity Patterns by Cognitive State and Mental Disorder Status May Suggest Different Neural Patterns of Consciousness
Ewa Andrzejak, Brain On Fire: Mechanisms Of Autoimmune Encephalitis Presenting With Psychosis, Seizures And Altered Levels Of Consciousness
Peter Grindrod, Cortex-like Complex Systems: What Occurs Within?
Steven Gubka, Emotions: Bodily Feelings or Evaluative Perception?
Lindsay Briner, Further Reaches Of Human Motivation
C20: Anesthesia
Live Zoom discussion Friday 18th, 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair: M Bruce MacIver
Bruce MacIver, Nonlinear Dynamics Analyses of EEG Signals Capture Brain States at Different Levels of Consciousness
Matthew I. Banks, Cortical Connectivity Indexes Arousal State During Sleep and Anesthesia
Heonsoo Lee, Neuronal dynamics in visual cortex under conscious and anesthetized conditions
Anthony G. Hudetz, Local Neuronal Connectivity Contributes to Loss and Return of Consciousness During Anesthesia
Sarah Eagleman, Nitrous Oxide Decreases Electroencephalogram Complexity, But Not Frequency Content at Loss of Consciousness
Teo Jeon Shin, Changes In Information Processing In Propofol-induced Deep Sedation In Volunteers Using Electroencephalography
C21: Dreaming and the Unconscious
Live Zoom discussion Friday Sept 18th, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair: James Pagel
Rishit Das, Unconscious Cognitions and Emotion: The Bridge Between Subliminal Stimuli and Its Influence on Emotion
Katherine Mohr, Dreaming in the Holo-net: Dreaming and Consciousness in a Holographic Universe
James Pagel, Parasomnia Dreams: The Other Forms of Sleep-associated Consciousness
Rinaldo Livio Perri, Hypnotic Suggestions May Reduce The Conflict Between The Automatic And The Intentional Processes. Behavioral And Neurophysiological Evidence From The Stroop Task.
Rubin Naiman, Resurrecting Morpheus: Healing the Silent Epidemic of Dream Loss
Stephen LaBerge, Lucid Dreaming Allows Voluntary Perception During REM Sleep: I. Background and Behavioral Evidence
Paul Kalas, New evidence for precognition through dreams
Thomas Wilson, Awareness of Implicit Priming of Self-disclosure
C22: Meditation and Mysticism
Live Zoom discussion Wednesday 18th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair, Dianne Trussell
Lars Sandved Smith, Towards a Computational Neuroscience of Meditation and Self Awareness
Dianne Trussell, Physiological and Subjective Correlates of Three Types of Body-focused Meditation: A Pilot Study
Tracy Brandmeyer, A Neural Marker for Training Focused Attention Meditation: Closed-loop FM Neurofeedback
Noa Latham, Mystical Experiences and Epistemic Justification
Dani Caputi, Consciousness and Music Festivals: Increasing the Effect Sizes of Psychophysical Interactions
Erola Pons, The Sense of Self In Meditation and Depersonalization
Scott Forrer, Healing of Memories: Data Repair and Transfiguration by Means of Consciousness and Engaged Meditation
J Dudeja, Scientific Analysis of Mantra-based Meditation and Its Beneficial Effects
Sakunthala SK, The Science of Consciousness From the Ancient Scientists of India
C23: Nonlocal Consciousness
Live Zoom discussion Friday Sept 18th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair, Arnaud Delorme
Scott Ventureyra, Artificial Intelligence, the Nature of Consciousness, Information, Reality and the Possibility of the Afterlife
Gary Schwartz, Computer Automated, Multi-center, Multi-blinded, Randomized Control Trial of Hypothesized Spirit Presence and Communication
James Lake, An Integral Model of the Near-Death Experience: Neural and Quantum Mechanisms
Arnaud Delorme, Accuracy and Neural Correlates of Blinded Mediumship Compared to Controls on Image Classification Task
Maria Stewart, Investigation of Non-inferential Perception and Associated Cognitive Aspects
Raja Choudhury, Conversations With The Void: 112 Non-dual Tantric Meditation Hacks for Altering Your Consciousness and Experiencing The Void
Christine Simmonds-Moore, Exploring The Correlates And Nature Of Exceptional Experiences In A Psychomanteum
Sonia Rinaldi, Giving Voice To Those Who Cannot Speak
C24: Visual / Literature / Media (+ Art Tech Health + PO 6.0)
Live Zoom discussion Friday 18th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 2, Chair, Sascha Seifert
Nick Day, Painting the World with Fractals: How Creative Expression Reveals a Deeper Order of Reality and Consciousness
Sascha Seifert, Can Social Media Ever Become Conscious Again? - 2020 Snapshot on the Meta Analysis
Ana Eva Iribas-Rudin, From postal art to a visit of the muses: Susan Hiller's 'Draw Together' and 'Sisters of Menon'
Stuart Moody, Hidden Technologies: A Complementary Approach to Ecosystem Management?
Christopher Wittum, Idealist Realism
Hilda Sotelo, Critical Organic Writing to Decode Oppression
Peter Sapaty, Symbiosis of Real and Simulated Worlds Under Global Awareness and Consciousness
Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, Making Waves: Ripples of Consciousness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
C25: Consciousness and Fundamental Models
Live Zoom discussion Friday Sept. 18th, 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Zoom Channel 3, Chair, Nancy J Woolf
Nancy J. Woolf, The Conscious Matrix: Our Portal to Universal Truth and Connection
Goutam Ghosh, A Four Layered Cosmopsychist Model of Reality based on Vedanta for Deriving Materiality from Consciousness - Solving the Reverse Hard Problem
Fredric Schiffer, Consciousness and Good and Evil
Alexander Aris, A Noncomputable Level Iv Multiverse, Universal Consciousness And The Living Cosmos
Daniela Munoz-Jimenez, From Fundamental Forces to Fundamental Meanings: Life, Consciousness and Morality
Dennis Balson, Protoconsciousness/Energy and Matter
Burton Voorhees, Consciousness and Culture in the Imaginal World