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