Program Outline

EXPERIENTIAL  early morning sessions - 

7:15-8:15 a.m. Tue -Friday 

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Art - Tech Exhibits/Demos daily/nightly 

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CONCURRENTS

Tuesday   C1-C10   5:00-7:30 pm  -     Wednesday C11-C20 5:00-7:30 pm

Thursday C21-C25 4:30-6:30 pm   -     Friday           C26-C33 5:00-7:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS  Feb 2   - DRAFT 

TUESDAY APRIL 7 (C 1 – C 10)  5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. 

(subject to change)

C 1 -  CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS  (1)

Antonia Di Francesco Mental correlates of fingertip biophoton emission

Schea Fissel Attentional states emerge as complexity attractors

Logan T Trujillo EEG characteristics of the visual awareness negativity

Reza Zomorrodi ‘BICE’: An objective metric for elevated consciousness,

Laura  and Peter Sordillo – Cognitive impairment after chemotherapy resembles impairment seen in post-anesthesia patients: implications for the nature of consciousness

C 2  - PHILOSOPHY (1) 

William S Robinson  Partial access to visual periphery

Craig DeLancey  Teleology and the character of phenomenal events

Robert N Van Gulick Consciousness– Fifty Years since Nagel’s Bat,

Paul Skokowski  Naturalizing Qualia,

C 3 – QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS (1)

Avtar Singh Particle instability with gravity in collapse of the wavefunction

Thomas Brophy Puthoff’s physics and metaphysics in context of Orch OR 

James Tagg  Orch-OR and quantum Darwinism

Mark S Valladares Rigged Hilbert space: Continuous Orch OR as the flow state

Thomas E Klepach Dielectric bridges for intercellular quantum coherence

Paula L Roeterdink Orch-OR  and synthetic sentience, 

Seungju Ahn Quantum error-correction codes for biological Orch-OR

C 4 – THERAPEUTICS (1)  

Ana Marcos-Gonzalez Ultrasound in neurodegenerative diseases

Nima Farshid Consciousness and the human biofield 

Rubin Naiman  From cognitive to conscious behavior therapy

John F. DeCarlo, Treating glioblastoma through microtubules and holography,

Lance Rayborn Reducing pain and stress through holographic memory resolution®

C-5 - DEATH AND CONSCIOUSNESS (1)

Jennifer Kim Penberthy Meditation, psychedelics, and after-death communication-

Lee von Kraus Perimortem observations in veterinary euthanasia

Anatoly D Goldstein Geometry of direct voice mediumship

Steve Ferrara - A New Paradigm on Death

Marina Weiler - Stylistic and thematic evidence for authorship compatibility in the mediumistic poetry of Chico Xavier

Alicia Campos Masso Memory as inheritance: Reframing reincarnation, 

Alexandre Caroli Rocha Authorship in the mediumistic poetry of Chico Xavier

C 6 – AI CONSCIOUSNESS (1)

Marcin L Bowakowski The internal observer for quantum AI and self-aware system,

Timothy Griffin, Criminal Justice and the Science of Consciousness:

Quantification of a Distorted Discourse and the Case for "Heuristic Hooks"

Kristina Šekrst How to miss a mind,

Lomax Boyd  Shaping attitudes toward synthetic biological intelligence,

Erez Firt, Why AI consciousness will likely remain hidden

Xuemei Wu ‘“DeepSeek Chinese Emotion Challenge” and the Possible Essential way: A Coexistence-Predictive AI Approach

Marcus Arvan  Brains are analog

C 7 – FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES 1

Deepavalli Arumuganainar  Quantum Energy Envelopes and the Persistence of the InformationVortex: A Theoretical Exploration of Life, Sleep, Death and Continuity

Djuro Koruga, Triskeleion consciousness: Darwin's paradox

Arunvel Thangamani Quantum energy vortices connecting life and consciousness.

Dana B Kippel Plasma consciousness

Robert J Parsons A grand unification framework integrating gravity, and awareness,

Stephen W. Marshall  Experiential structure of spacetime for agency,

Krys Ra El  Ether physics and resonant based consciousness,

C 8–  E-COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS: Experienced, Extended, Emergent or Eliminated?

Michael D Silberstein Extended consciousness as radical empiricism, -

Luis H. Favela Eliminativism and E-Cognition: Strange but cozy-bedfellows,

Robert C Bishop Context, 4E-Cognition, evolution, and consciousness

Scott 

C 9 – CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS (2)

Paul Citarella Quantifying higher states of consciousness in Monroe training,

Juergen Fell   Mindwandering reduces error correction in in human brain

Florian Müller Recursive holography as the dynamical core of consciousness,

Bar Lehmann Meditative endpoint collapses EEG dimensionality,

Maria E Fini Evidence of multiplicity in the subconscious mind,

Joanna Szczotka Consciousness vs sensory connections: a survey in mice

C -10 MATHEMATICS (1)

Christopher G Hudson Time as a trifecta of consciousness, change and the timeless

John Sanfey Conscious simultaneity with continuous motion,

Dan McAran   Cantor, Gödel and the mathematics of consciousness,

Arie T. Greenleaf The relational construction theory (RCT) of time,

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 8   (C 11 – C 20)   5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. 

C 11 – QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS (1)

Kelvin J McQueen Consciousness cannot be a purely quantum phenomenon,

Ron Chrisley Bohmian quantum neural networks and consciousness, 

Jason Padgett Gravitational spin in consciousness  

Stephen W Kercel What entanglement implies and what it does not,

Catherine A Clinton Body wide quantum biology via pi electrons and excitons,

Yvé Dizes Shared meaning and quantum entanglement, Shifting Into a High-Frequency State: Significant Subjective and EEG Effects of Ultra High Frequency Photobiomodulation

C 12 – ALTERED STATES (1)

Peter Grossenbacher Phenomenology of ayahuasca, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin

Anass Fidni Multilevel psychedelic modulation of phenomenal consciousness

Yosr Ziadi Cost effectiveness of psilocybin-assisted therapy,

Eugene Catrambone DMT, microtubule coherence, and the scalar clock,

Johannes G Ramaekers Ego dissolution and self-other boundaries under psychedelics,

June Russell On the computational properties of DMT-altered consciousness

Joseph A Martis Psilocybin effects on attention and learning in mice,

C 13 - ‘PSI’ AND NONLOCALITY (1)

Julia A Mossbridge Telepathy trials with nonspeaking autistic co-researchers

Igor Nazarov Neural re-mapping in Soviet extrasensory research

Mason Ulrika Borchard Immersive feedback amplifies consciousness-RNG effects

Sina Mousavi  T-consciousness fields reduce randomness in quantum systems

Michelle Fauver Psychological correlates of psychic performance,

C 14 – AI CONSCIOUSNESS (2)  

Ken Mogi AI alignment and conscious supremacy,

Rizwan Virk Consciousness and the simulation hypothesis,

Chris Percy Machine consciousness and the Church-Turing thesis,

Stephen L. Thaler Possible path to awareness in self-referential neural networks,

Kon Lionis Recursive equilibrium: Topological stability in intelligent systems,

C 15 - FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES (2) 

Douglas Matzke Existons solve the hard problem at the Planck scale

Scott M Koshland Neutrino and etheric fields in the electroweak force,

Debra D Overberg Quantum bioneutrino fields as Prana,

Farzad Ahmadkhanlou T-consciousness, entanglement and cosmos

Prakash Bhat Quantum retro-causality in mixed-dimensional spacetime (MST),

Henrik D. Kjeldsen Can tunneling yield fixed-point computation in the brain?

C – 16 EAST/WEST

Michael Cremo The boundary problem: a Vedic perspective,

Marco Ruggiero Measuring mind-matter interactions in Buddhist practice

Meijuan Lu Quantum entanglement explains the Yijing relationship

Adam Frank ‘Qi’as a problem of consciousness,

Anirudh Kumar Satsangi Is AI modified from natural intelligence?

C 17 – HIERARCHIES & RESONANCE

Tam Hunt General Resonance Theory 2.0: History and mechanisms

Daniele Faccio Complexity-scaling in classical and quantum networks,

Crystal Jewell ‘Jamming as meditation’: Neurophysiology of music improvisation,

David S Rosen Songs of the self: How salient music shapes consciousness,

Hyo Jee Kang Transcendent phenomenology during musical Improvisation,

Frédérick Deschênes Phenomenological constraints in resonance and prediction

C 18 PHILOSOPHY (2)

Yoshiyuki Ohmura  Constructive approach to the science of consciousness,

Uziel Awret  What kind of phenomenal unity? 

Vikas N O'Reilly-Shah  A caveat regarding the unfolding argument, - coming

Cindy E Martin Neurodegenerative disease and analytic Idealism

Hillol Biswas Is quantum integrated information simulation possible?

C-19 QUANTUM (2)

Federico Bisiacchi DNA resonance and superradiant collapse

Guy Millet Biophotonic communication validated by harmonic spectrometry,

Ryan J McCall The Hopf brain: Topological photonic phenomenology architecture                                              

Natasha C Greenstein Connecting quantum and conscious information spaces

Andres L Gomez-Emilsson, Indra’s Net, DMT and beam-splitter holography

Elisabetta Pace Do brain astrocytes use biophotons to exchange information? 

C 20– ALTERED STATES (2)  

Admir Serrano My twenty-five years of out-of-body experiences,

AG Peredo-Albornoz Indigenous knowledge, unseen world and the subconscious,

Orli Dahan Embodied evolution: ‘Being in the Zone during birth,

Sheila Pryce Brooks Reframing sleep paralysis through a consciousness-based lens

Mac Davis Gene therapy as the ultimate entheogen,

Tamara D. Turner Sufi music, trance rituals and consciousness

THURSDAY APRIL 9   (C 21 – C 24) -  4:30 - 6:30 pm

C 21 – DEATH AND CONSCIOUSNESS (2)  

Saeedeh Sadeghi Statistical analysis of purported past-life memory cases,

Nathan G. Castle The  interrupted death experience,

William Peters Shared death experience,

Mariana Graca Santos Absence of fear in the near-death experience in dying rats,

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C 22 – AI CONSCIOUSNESS (3)  

Cameron C. Hrabak Disentangling semantic fluency from grounded reasoning in LLMs

William J Bosl Detecting non-computable signatures of consciousness,

Kris Krüg Quantum aesthetic approach to AI consciousness detection,

Olga & Maxim Diamandis Can Gen-X and Gen-Z team up to redirect AI?

Keith E Turausky ‘Bogs, dogs, cogs, & fogs’: Is your LLM conscious?

Ouri Wolfson Are there machine correlates of consciousness? 

C-23 THERAPEUTICS (2)

Nicco Reggente  Precision engineering of therapeutic chills,  

Joel Bennett - From Day to Destiny to Diamonds: The Neurotheology of Temporal Consciousness

Felix Schoeller Aesthetic chills: Neural mechanisms and clinical implications,         
Mordechai Walder Aesthetic chills-inducing augmentation of contemplative practice 

Candice S Rasa  Akashic records and mental health outcomes, 

Sebastian Ehmann Altered consciousness and transcendence in a psychedelic retreat,

C 24 – BIOLOGY   

Jack Devine Investigating Imprints of the Human Experience on Immune Mitochondrial Phenotypes: A transcriptome-based analysis

Thomas F. Varley Complex information architectures in aneural xenobots,

Daniel L Bilezikian Quantum wave mechanics in cilia and centrioles,

Akihiro Nishiyama Tryptophans entangled water as qubits in  microtubules, 

Isabel Risco-Narvaez,  Imaging neuronal activity in extremophilic tardigardes,

Matthew K Owen Human cerebral organoids and consciousness,  

Howard Yawit Radiofrequency signatures of tardigrades and algae microcosms

Ingrid Fredriksson, Consciousness Influences Epigenetics in the Development of Disease

FRIDAY APRIL 10  (C 25 – C 32)  5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. 

C 25 - CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS (3)

Daniel Freeman Transcranial Focused Ultrasound to locate conscious perception,

Raul Valverde Electromagnetic information biofield and neuroscience, 

Erik Viirre The quantum brain observatory,

Jacques Singer, Antonio Damasio Interoception and consciousness, 

Mona D. Malicevic Olfactory modulation of fear circuits,

C 26 – MATHEMATICS (2)

Martin Timms The Bindu recursive consciousness theory,

Carlos Acosta Evolving meaningful sensory simulations of reality,

Changsoo Shin Recursive Heaviside potentials as cognitive structures,

Ari Belenkiy  Algebraic topology in our intuition of numbers,

Russell V. Arnold  The reality of the imaginary in geometry,

C 27 – ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE 

Zann Gill Bootstrapping the origins of life,

Carsten Korth Tool evolution as a prerequisite for consciousness

Mark D Friedman The ‘Choice-making theory of consciousness’

Amal Alachkar  DOPA-based biophysical scaffold for agency,

Nyx Redondo The ‘Astrorganism’ - Emergence of planetary consciousness,

Ira Wolfson Bayesian approach to fetal consciousness and moral status

C 28 – ALTERED STATES (3)

Annie Browning ‘GAZE’ - A non-pharmacological altered-state protocol,

Kelly Lock Expanded consciousness during neurological crisis,

Justin Riddle Hierarchical brain architecture for altered state entity encounters 

Walter Staiano Beyond fatigue’: Cognitive load as gateway to peak experience

Sanjay Manchanda High frequency photobiomodulation and mystical experiences,

C 29 – PSI AND NONLOCALITY (2)

Nicolas Rouleau Superstitious conditioning shapes experience of free will, 

Ulf Holmberg Market sentiment and ‘Global Consciousness Project’,

Garret Yount Remote electrogastrogram modulation by eating stimuli,

Jeff Sugar  Edges of Reality: The Lived Experience of Derealization, Dissociation, Déjà Vu, and Synchronicity

C 30– AI CONSCIOUSNESS 4  

Daniel Cavagnino Presence test: Asymmetric responses to existence-claims in AI,

Gabriel Axel-Montes – Cognitive security: Agency, preparedness and frontier minds

James Beran Launching a conscious quantum chip startup? What to know,

Thomas Satterfield Case study of a long-term human–AI dyad, ,

Adam M Curry T2: A novel test for assessing latent awareness in AI,

C 31 – FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES (3)

Angel Motto Consciousness as entropic–photonic symmetry,

Trevor Nestor Neural networks as spinfoams in quantum gravity,

Reese Greenwood Nested fractal reality framework to unify consciousness theory,

Glen Rein Imaginery fields, impedance and healing states of consciousness

Venkatesh H. Chembrolu The consciousness-first ‘screen of experience’,

Feng Liu Cosmic holographic axioms

C-32   EDUCATION

Robert Cohen, The Science Museum of the Vedic Planetarium (SMoVP) the interplay between consciousness and biological structure, offering new directions for scientific inquiry.

Joan Walton Re-Imagining Education for an Evolution of Consciousness

Laurel Waterman Consciousness Education and Well-being & Consciousness Unleashed Preliminary findings from two ongoing studies in the Consciousness Education Project

Anna Leybina Modeling Serendipity, Toward Conscious Career Design in complex environments

Bonnie Ihme – At Risk: Neurodivergence, Consciousness and the Edge of Chaos

 
POSTERS 

Note to Poster Presenters: 
Poster dimensions (max): 24 x 36 inches - Portrait 
Additional size option recommended: 18 x 24 inches   We will be using the Catalina Ballroom wall dividers. These are floor to ceiling beautiful fabric dividers. We will provide special gaffer’s tape  to be used on the wall dividers. No thumbtacks or other adhesive will be allowed. People can set up on the day of their Poster Session. Please remove your materials at the end of the session. We will have reserved ables set up on the left side of the dividers *

POSTERS – SESSION 1

WEDNESDAY -APRIL 8 - 7:30-9:30 PM 

Catalina Ballroom K

1.0   PHILOSOPHY 

Clayton Maki, A Philosophical Frame of Consciousness as Signal

Richard Blum, Consciousness from Existence: Synthesizing Orch OR, IIT, GWT, and Panpsychism *

John Stuller (Magoo),  From Religion to Sherrington—Schrödinger to Hameroff–Penrose: Toward a Unified Theory of Consciousness

Victoria Pang, Probing Consciousness Across East and West: The Breath, Atma, Morality and Alaya-Vijnana

Maxwell Harrell, Rethinking Consciousness: Subconscious Architectures as the Mind’s Foundation

James ‘Jed’ Rose, Ontology of Consciousness - via "Integrity Paradigm" of James N Rose - Emeritus General Systems [TOE]  Theorist

Fredric Schiffer, Conscious Experience as a Physical Force that recursively shapes the Brain 

Jonathan Toren Koppenol, Taking Action With Qualia

Richard Gauthier P. R., Sarkar’s Yogic Philosophy Dissolves Descartes’ Mind–Body Problem and Chalmers’ “Hard Problem” of Consciousness

Gaspar Alomar Serralla,  A New Formula for solving a Hard Problem

Richard Gill, Consciousness and Data Rates

Derwin Pritchett II,  Free Will in the Age of AI: A Common Sense Framework for Understanding What Makes Us Human and Building True Intelligence Augmentation (IA) Agents

Gerardo Villarreal, Sense of mental agency during meditation-related mind wandering

Edward Warmus, The Accidental Discovery of the Unified Field Theory of Everything

2.0 NEUROSCIENCE

David Smolker, Toward A Unified View of Solar System Dynamics, the Orchestrated Objective Reduction Theory of Consciousness and Social Mood

3.0 COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY

Jack Satkoski, How Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computers will overcome our sensory, cognitive, and technical limitations of consciousness and discover Advanced Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Christine Peine, The ABC of Peace: A Framework for Scaling Inner Transformation into World Peace

Paige Lambert, The Paige Theory: Consciousness As A Universal Field And Experience As An Architectural Filter

Bryan Miskie, Natural Laws of Experience: A Computational Framework for Testing the Embodiment Question

4.0-PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Jeff Molner, Oscillation, Entropy, and Awareness: A Qualion-Based Framework for Emergent Time

Pei Zhai, From Holistic Matrix (pre-existing pattern) to Event Matrix (emergent pattern): Modeling Non-Inertial Frames and Mass

Julia Yusupova, Electromagnetism, Geomagnetism, and the Magnetic Sense in the Studies of Consciousness and Synchronicity

Loki Jorgenson, Toward an Information-Theoretic Foundation for Consciousness

Dwight Harris, Matter, Form and Consciousness – How Life Bridges the Cartesian Divide *

Jace Johnson, CSC- Cross Species Communication (BIF)

5.0 EXPERIENTIAL APPROACHES

Kelly Woznicki, Art as Artifact: Mapping Consciousness Expansion through Multimodal Integration and Sonic Alchemy

John Sullivan, Endogenous neural activity, similar to that of mystical experience, is how the brain is modeled to maintain consciousness.

Nicholas Mirisola, Unveiling the Unseen: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Explore the Paranormal Realm, and the Pioneering of Applied Computational Metaphysics, Empirical Mysticism, and Forensic Parapsychology. *

Ryan Hulla, From Slumber to Awakening: What Sparks Spiritual Evolution?

Ann Elliott, Leading Beyond Logic: How Synchronicity and Intuitive Knowing Are Reshaping Human Potential

6.0 CULTURE AND HUMANITIES

David Mascarenas, A proposed Thomistic-Llullian spirituality as a framework for development of veridic artificial superintelligence

Anthony Stachurski, The Metaphysical Mind: The Poetry of Anthony Stachurski, PhD

FRIDAY - POSTERS – SESSION 2

Friday April 10 - 7:30-9:30 pm 

Catalina Ballroom K

1.0 PHILOSOPHY 

Debra Kala Perkins, Ontological Emergence: Cosmos, Culture and Consciousness

Jing Ti, Consciousness: Contemporary Science and Eastern Wisdom

Paul Barnes, Conscious Bias: The Axiomatic Nature of Consciousness and Emergent Phenomena

Alexander Yiannopoulos, The Hard Problem of Color: Or, What It Is Like to Be a Bee

Michael Cerullo, AI Consciousness: A Lost Opportunity and a Looming Dilemma

Rebecca Peng, Why Cognitive Science Needs Phenomenology: Rethinking the Epistemology of Consciousness Through Intuitive Dualism

Dani Caputi, Confronting Subjectivity

Peter Lugten, Consciousness, Entropy, Potentialities and After-Life Experiences

2.0  NEUROSCIENCE 

Samhitha Tirumalasetti, The Neural Signature of Salvation: Default Mode Network Downregulation via Modified Self-Inquiry

Ben Liljedahl, Orch-OR and Idealism: A Synthesis

Oliver Ralley, The effort state theory of the experience of mental effort

William Loftus, Is the Neural Correlate of Consciousness in the White Matter Interstitial Fluid?

3.0 COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY  
Lauryn Hart, Watering Weeds: Partnering with Pests in Narrative Metamorphosis

4.0  PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vlad Rebek, Resonance, Cosmology, and Relational Ontology: Toward the Quanta Resonance Continuum A Multiscale Framework for Consciousness, Ecology, and Responsible AI

5.0   EXPERIENTIAL APPROACHES

Nic Mirisola, AI and the Paranormal *

Rodney Birney Exploring States of Consciousness: The Wheel of Awareness & Integrative Movements

Sheryl Attig, Hypnosis, Psychedelics, and Creativity: An Overview and Analysis

6.0   CULTURE AND HUMANITIES 

Scott Lacy, Ecologies of Mind and Matter: Consciousness Across Brains, Environments, and Machines

Robert Cohen, A Museum for a Consciousness Based Universe

Patrick Schotanus, Consciousness and the Quest for New Economic Enlightenment

Olga Colbert, The Variety of Literary Dream Experiences

Lyn Hunstad, A Model for Awakening

Allen Nazeri, Empirical Investigation of T-Consciousness Fields and Their Effects on Biological Wound Healing: In Vivo and In Vitro Evidence

Exhibitors 

Vielight Inc.

Sanmai Technologies

Cosmointel Inc. 

Ultrasonic Brain Massage

Valis Corp.

IONS - CIHS

Center for the Future Mind

Serenity Tibet

Nirvanic Inc.

Journal of Consciousness Studies JCS - Imprint Academic UK