The Science of Consciousness 2025
31st Annual TSC
B A R C E L O N A July 6-11
Workshops, Plenaries, Concurrents, Exhibits, Demos, Social, Poetry Slam, Dancing - AC Marriott Forum Hotel
followed by and in concert with
4th Annual FoC-25
B A R C E L O N A July 11–13
adjacent to AC Marriott Forum Hotel
Music, Art, Experiential, Inspiration, Spirituality, Education, Business, Evolution
The Science of Consciousness (‘TSC’) conference is the world’s longest running inter-disciplinary gathering on the study of consciousness, the nature of existence and our place in the universe. TSC has alternated yearly since 1994 between Tucson, Arizona USA and elsewhere including Italy, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, California, Switzerland, Finland, and in 2023 Taormina, on the island of Sicily. In 2025 TSC will be in Barcelona, Spain preceding and in conjunction with The Festival of Consciousness.
We are at a crossroads in the age-old study of consciousness. Over the past thirty years approaches to understanding consciousness have diverged along two distinct paths: 1) ‘neurocomputational’ views of the brain as a complex computer of simple neurons, a view compatible with AI systems becoming conscious, and 2) ‘funda-mental’ views in which consciousness is intrinsic to the universe, connected to the brain through quantum biology. Exploring the funda-mental view, TSC embraces neuroscience biology far more rigorously than AI-compatible simple neurons. Ironically, conscious AI may be most likely to occur in biomimetic quantum computers.
TSC 2025 - Barcelona - PLENARY Sessions (July 7-July 11)
Monday July 7
Plenary 1 8:30 am - 10:40 am - Consciousness and Reality
Sir Roger Penrose * Don Hoffman * Avshalom Elitzur
Plenary 2 11:10 am – 12:35 pm - AI, LLMs and Biomimetic Quantum Computing
Farhan Lakhany * Anirban Bandyopadhyay
Plenary 3 2:00 pm – 4:10 pm - Brain Oscillations, Waves and Nested Scales
Earl K Miller * Matthew Larkum * Sabine Kastner
Tuesday July 8
Plenary 4 8:30 am - 10:40 am - Theories of Consciousness and Brain Modulation
Robert Lawrence Kuhn * Giulio Ruffini * Jay Sanguinetti
Plenary 5 11:10 am – 12:35 pm - Anesthesia and Consciousness
Michael Wiest * TBA
Plenary 6 2:00 pm – 4:10 pm - Psychedelics and Consciousness
William Richards * Pär Halje * TBA
Wednesday July 9
Plenary 7 8:30 am - 10:40 am - Consciousness and Quantum Measurement
Ivette Fuentes * Thomas Brophy * Santosh Helekar
Plenary 8 11:10 am – 12:35 pm - Consciousness and Vibrations in Spacetime Geometry
Anirban Bandyopadhyay * William Brown
Plenary 9 2:00 pm – 4:10 pm - Quantum Biology and SuperRadiance
Philip Kurian * Dante Lauretta * Anita Goel
Thursday July 10
Plenary 10 8:30 am - 10:40 am - Energy, Information and Consciousness in the Universe
Nassim Haramein * Rupert Sheldrake * TBA
Plenary 11 11:10 am – 12:35 pm - End-of-Life Brain Activity
Jimo Borjigin * Alex Gomez-Marin
Plenary 12 2:00 pm – 4:10 pm - Evidence for Non-Local Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception
David del Rosario * Javier Sierra * Dean Radin
Friday July 11
Plenary 13 9:00 am - 11:10 am - Prospects for Extraterrestrial Consciousness
Brannon Wheeler * Ross Coulthart * TBA*
Plenary 14 11:40 am – 13:00 pm - Quantum Fields and Consciousness
Deepak Chopra * Federico Faggin
Sunday July 6 - Workshops
Sunday Morning Workshops - 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Workshop 1- Education and the Landscape Taxonomy of Consciousness Studies - Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Paavo Pylkkänen, Brian Lord, Jeffery Martin - (room tba)
Workshop 2 - Indian Knowledge Systems and Consciousness - Kunal Mooley, Laxmidhar Behera, Martin Fleming, M Coceal, Hide Saegusa, Deepak Chopra - (room tba)
Workshop 3 - Quantum Biology - Travis Craddock, Philip Kurian, Aarat Kalra, Jack Tuszynski, Adrienne Vancura, Chayan Nandi, Dana Kippel - (Main Ballroom)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Break
Sunday Afternoon Workshops - 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Workshop 4 - Nonlocal Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception - Alex Gómez Marin, David del Rosario, Chris Roe, Dean Radin - (room tba)
Workshop 5 - Women in Consciousness Studies - Marjorie Woollacott, Joan Walton, Marina Weiler, Mona Sobhani, Allison Paradise, Laurel Waterman - (room tba)
Workshop 6 - The Varieties of 'BCI’ - Brain Computer Interfaces - G Ruffini, A Maiques, Z Cinker, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Jay Sanguinetti, Brian Lord, Arnaud Delorme (Sponsored by Neuroelectrics, Starlab, PuzzleX, DDG, SEMA Lab, Sanmei) (Main Ballroom)
Sunday Evening Workshop - 7:00 pm -10:00 pm
Workshop 7 - Is Consciousness Funda-Mental? - Nassim Haramein, William Brown, Don Hoffman, Thomas Brophy, Deepak Chopra (sponsored by ISF, IONS) (Main Ballroom)
center@arizona.edu
Abi Behar Montefiore, Asst. Dir.; Sr. Prgm. Mgr.
Stuart Hameroff, Director - hameroff.arizona.edu
CCS Website
YouTube Channel - The Science of Consciousness Conferences & programs
Facebook CCS-TSC
Join TSC E-list
Abstract Submission LINK - Extended deadline: Feb 10, 2025 Notifications - Feb 20, 2025
REGISTRATION Link is Now Open for Conference/Festival Registration
Hotel Reservation Link Group Block - AC Marriott Forum Hotel, Barcelona (BCN)
2025 TSC Conference Sponsors – updating
Instituto de Neurociencia Avanzada de Barcelona (INAB) - The Festival of Consciousness * Closer to Truth * DDG * IONS * ISF * Neuroelectrics * PuzzleX * Sanmei * Starlab * Tiny Blue Dot Foundation * UA-AZ Astrobiology Center - UA-Center for Consciousness Studies