The Science of Consciousness

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. YouTube Videos - The Science of Consciousness Conferences and Special Programs: 2010-2025

The Tucson Conferences - Biennial

Since 1994, the biennial series formerly known as "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference now "The Science of Consciousness" are a landmark of international, interdisciplinary events sponsored by the University of Arizona and host organizations devoted entirely to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness. They have explored the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and cognitive science, to neurobiology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, phenomenological accounts, and physics. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research.

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The Science of Consciousness – since 1994

1994 – TSC 1 Apr 12-17, 1994 – Tucson, Arizona

1995 – TSC 2 - Ischia, Italy

1996 – TSC 3 Apr 8-13, 1996 – Tucson, Arizona

1997 – TSC 4 Aug 18-24, 1997 – Elsinore, Denmark

1998 – TSC 5 Apr 27- May 2,1998 – Tucson, Arizona

1999 – TSC 6 May 28, 1999 – Tokyo, Japan

2000 – TSC 7 Apr 10-15, 2000 – Tucson, Arizona

2001 – TSC 8 Aug 6-11, 2001 – Skövde, Sweden

2002 – TSC 9 Apr 8-12, 2002 – Tucson, Arizona

2003 – TSC 10 July 6-10, 2003 – Prague, Czech Republic

2004 – TSC 11 Apr 7-11, 2004 – Tucson, Arizona

2005 – TSC 12 Aug 17-20, 2005 – Copenhagen, Denmark

2006 – TSC 13 Apr 4-8, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona

2007 – TSC 14 July 23-27, 2007 – Budapest, Hungary

2008 – TSC 15 Apr 8-12, 2008 – Tucson, Arizona

2009 – TSC 16 June 11-14, 2009 – Hong Kong, China

2010 – TSC 17 Apr 12-17, 2010 – Tucson, Arizona

2011 – TSC 18 May 2-8, 2011 – Stockholm, Sweden

2012 – TSC 19 Apr 9-14, 2012 – Tucson, Arizona

2013 – TSC 20 Mar 3-9, 2013 – Agra, India

2014 – TSC 21 Apr 21-26, 2014 – Tucson, Arizona

2015 – TSC 22 June 9-13, 2015 – Helsinki, Finland

2016 – TSC 23 Apr 25-30, 2016 – Tucson, Arizona

2017 – TSC 24 June 5-10, 2017 – San Diego, California

2018 – TSC 25 Apr 2-7, 2018 – Tucson, Arizona

2019 – TSC 26 June 25-28, 2019 – Interlaken, Switzerland

2020 – TSC 27 Sept 14-18, 2020 rescheduled - virtual (April 12-18, 2020 -canceled) Tucson, AZ

2021 - Science and Roger Penrose - Aug 3-6, 2021 4 day Webinar – virtual

2022 - TSC 28 April 18-23, 2022 - Tucson, Arizona - hybrid

2023 - TSC 29 May 22-28, 2023 - Taormina Italy

2023 - Special Symposium - August 18-20, 2023 - Encinitas, California

2024 - TSC 30th Annual Apr 22-26, 2024 - Tucson, Arizona

2025 - TSC 31 July 6-13, 2025 - Barcelona Spain

Relaunch ****

2026 - TSC 32 October 11-16, 2026 - San Diego

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2014-2025

TSC Conference 2025 - Barcelona July 6-13

Program - Barcelona The Science of Consciousness 2025

The Festival of Conference - July 11-13

TSC Conference 2024 - Tucson - 30th Annual

TSC 2024 30th Annual, APRIL 22-26, 2024

Press Release/Announcement Call for Abstracts

TSC Conference 2023 - Taormina Sicily

Palazzo dei Congressi

https://youtube.com/@TSC2023-Taormina-qw2ie

May 22-28, 2023 - TSC 2023 Taormina, Sicily, Italy

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Program Committee

Antonio Chella (Università di Palermo)
Riccardo Manzotti (Università IULM, Milano)
Pietro Perconti (Università di Messina)
Stuart Hameroff (University of Arizona at Tucson)
Harald Atmanspacher (Turing Center, ETH Zurich)

Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness

August 18-20, 2023- ENCINITAS California - Summer Symposium

(co-sponsors: CIHS & CCS held at CIHS campus, Encinitas CA (Thomas Brophy, Stuart Hameroff)

PROGRAM AUG 16 Final Program.docx

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS AUG 16 Abstracts by Acceptance Type Aug 16 Final Report Encinitas.docx

AUTHORS-AFFILIATIONS INDEX AUG 16 Final Presenters + Affiliations Report Encinitas.docx

VIDEOS PLENARY TALKS SHOWCASE TALKS SHORT TALKS

The Science of Consciousness Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson Arizona April 18-22, 2022

Feature Interviews 2022 - Conscious Pictures

2021 - Science & Roger Penrose - Virtual

in celebration of his 90th birthday and Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)

Science and Roger Penrose - 4-Day Online Symposium

Intro Trailer by CCS for Roger Penrose 2021

SESSION VIDEOS: Science & Roger Penrose 2021

About the Webinar & Background

Science & ROGER PENROSE - Webinar VIDEOS

Now available on the CCS YouTube Channel

The Free Webinar was held: August 3-6, 2021 (4 sessions; 20 speakers)

On the occasion of his 90th Birthday and Nobel Prize

About the Webinar & Background links / Speaker Bios & Abstracts / Program Schedule /

Flyer #1 -early Webinar Outline

Session 1 - OVERVIEW - BLACK HOLES - R. Penrose, S. Hameroff, R. Genzel, R. Blandford

Session 2 - QUANTUM MEASUREMENT – OBJECTIVE REDUCTION OR – R. Blandford, I. Fuentes-Guridi, H. Ulbricht, D. Bouwmeester, P. Stamp

Session 3 - CONSCIOUSNESS – ORCH OR & PANEL ON QUANTUM BIOLOGY OF MICROTUBULES - S. Hameroff, G. Scholes, A. Muotri, J. Riddle (Session Chair) A. Kalra, T. Craddock, A. Dogariu, MB MacIver, A.Bandyopadhyay, J.Tuszyński (Panel Chair)

Session 4 - CCC-A PRE-BIG BANG UNIVERSE: CONFORMAL CYCLIC COSMOLOGY R. Penrose, P. Tod, B. Keating, K. Meissner, V. Gurzadyan

PROGRAM ARCHIVES - TSC CONFERENCES & PROGRAMS

2022

2022 The Science of Consciousness Conference Tucson

April 18-22, 2022

PLENARY & KEYNOTE SESSIONS

2022 Program and Book of Abstracts - View

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2022 Plenary Program

TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 - Kiva Ballroom

PLENARY 1 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am MST

SLEEP, WAKEFULNESS & ANESTHESIA

Giancarlo Vanini, University of Michigan; Matthew Larkum, Humboldt University; Alex Proekt, University of Pennsylvania

PLENARY 2 - Keynote 1 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm MST

Christof Koch, Allen Institute for Brain Science

PLENARY 3 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm MST
BRAIN CONNECTIVITY

Jean-Rémi King, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Zirui Huang, University of Michigan

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022

PLENARY 4 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am MST
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Emma Huels, University of Michigan; Charlotte Martial, University of Liège

Elizabeth Krasnoff, California Institute for Human Science

PLENARY 5 - Keynote 2 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm MST
PSYCHEDELICS

Robin Carhart-Harris, University of California, San Francisco

PLENARY 6 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm MST
PSYCHEDELIC MECHANISMS

George Mashour, University of Michigan; Alex C Kwan, Yale University

Katrin Preller, Univ. of Zurich | Yale University

THURSDAY, April 21, 2022

PLENARY 7 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am MST

Daniel Sheehan, University of San Diego; Paul Davies, Arizona State University

Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University

PLENARY 8 - Keynote 3 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm MST

ASTROBIOLOGY & ASTROCONSCIOUSNESS

Avi Loeb, Harvard University

PLENARY 9 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm MST

Dante Lauretta, University of Arizona; Sara Walker, Arizona State University; Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark

FRIDAY - April 22, 2022

PLENARY 10 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am MST

Biyu J. He, New York University, Langone; Yuri B. Saalmann, University of Wisconsin; Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt

PLENARY 11 - Keynote 4 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm MST

REALITY+ : From the matrix to the metaverse

David Chalmers, New York University

PLENARY 12 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm MST

Hartmut Neven, Google Quantum AI; Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern University

Aristide Dogariu, University of Central Florida; Aarat Kalra, Princeton University

TSC CONFERENCE 2022

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2021

Science & Roger Penrose Webinar

The summer of '21

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Science & Roger Penrose - CCS WEBINAR VIDEOS

This Free Webinar was held: August 3-6, 2021 (4 sessions; 20 speakers)

On the occasion of Roger Penrose's 90th Birthday and Nobel Prize

About the Webinar / Speaker Bios & Abstracts

Program Schedule / Intro Reel / Session Videos

Session 1 - OVERVIEW - BLACK HOLES - R. Penrose, S. Hameroff, R. Genzel, R. Blandford

Session 2 - QUANTUM MEASUREMENT – OBJECTIVE REDUCTION OR – R. Blandford, I. Fuentes-Guridi, H. Ulbricht, D. Bouwmeester, P. Stamp

Session 3 - CONSCIOUSNESS – ORCH OR & PANEL ON QUANTUM BIOLOGY OF MICROTUBULES - S. Hameroff, G. Scholes, A. Muotri, J. Riddle (Session Chair) A. Kalra, T. Craddock, A. Dogariu, MB MacIver, A.Bandyopadhyay, J.Tuszyński (Panel Chair)

Session 4 - CCC-A PRE-BIG BANG UNIVERSE: CONFORMAL CYCLIC COSMOLOGY R. Penrose, P. Tod, B. Keating, K. Meissner, V. Gurzadyan

Keynote Speakers

Robin Carhart-Harris, University of California San Francisco

PSYCHEDELICS

ROBIN CARHART-HARRIS, Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor, Director of Neuroscape Psychedelics Division, Department of. Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

Robin Carhart-Harris moved to Imperial College London in 2008 after obtaining a PhD in Psychopharmacology from the University of Bristol, focused on the serotonin system, and an MA in Psychoanalysis from Brunel University, 2005. Robin has designed human brain imaging studies with LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and DMT, a clinical trial of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, a double-blind randomized controlled trial comparing psilocybin with the SSRI, escitalopram, for depression, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and a multimodal imaging study in first time users of psilocybin. Robin has published over 100 scientific papers. He founded the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London in April 2019, the first of its kind. In 2021, he was listed in TIME magazine’s ‘100 Next’, a list of 100 rising stars shaping the future. Also in 2021, he moved to University of California, San Francisco, becoming the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor in Neurology and Psychiatry. At UCSF, Robin will serve as Director of the new Psychedelics Division within the translational neuroscience Centre, Neuroscape.

Abstract Title: Psychedelics: Brain Mechanisms, Robin Carhart-Harris, UCSF

The talk takes a multi-level approach to the question of how psychedelics work in the brain. Key themes include: the pharmacology of classic serotonergic psychedelics, what this tells us about the current, developmental and evolutionary function of serotonin 2A receptor signaling, the acute brain effects of psychedelics as determined by functional brain imaging, current evidence for psychedelic therapy, the 'REBUS' model of the action of psychedelics, and how this maps on to the phenomenology of the acute psychedelic experience and therapeutic outcomes. The talk will end with a focus on a recent double-blind RCT comparing psilocybin therapy with an established antidepressant drug in the treatment of depression.

Christof Koch, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science

BRAIN CONSCIOUSNESS

CHRISTOF KOCH, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and President, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington and Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program.

Christof received his baccalaureate from the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute for biological Cybernetics in 1982. Subsequently, he spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 until 2013, Koch was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, from his initial appointment as Assistant Professor, Division of Biology and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1986, to his final position as Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology. See here for Christof's academic pedigree and his students. Christof joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science as Chief Scientific Officer in 2011 and became President in 2015. Christof’s passion are neurons – the atoms of perception, memory, behavior and consciousness – their diverse shapes, electrical behaviors, and their computational function within the mammalian brain, in particular in neocortex. The Allen Institute for Brain Science is engaged in a major effort to identify all the different types of neurons in the brains of mice and humans – the cell census effort. See the papers below. Christof discovered that in vivo cortical neurons do not integrate over large number of small inputs given their spiking variability, how neurons can multiply, the relationship between intra- and extra-cellular potential, and how this gives rise to the local field potential and the large-scale current sinks and sources and how weak extracellular fields can entrain spiking activity via ephaptic effects. He postulated the attentional saliency map hypothesis for biological and computer vision according to which one or more topographic organized spatial maps summarize bottom-up salient information in the visual system, he co-discovered, with Itzhak Fried, an high-level, invariant and abstract single neuron representation of familiar individuals and objects in the human medial temporal lobe (the so-called “Jennifer Aniston” or concept neurons) and developed the ‘continuous flashed suppression’ masking technique. In collaboration with Francis Crick, he initiated the modern search for the neuronal correlates of consciousness, a systematic experimental program to identify the minimal bio-physical mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept. In collaboration with Giulio Tononi, he co-developed the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness.

Abstract: Brain and Consciousness, Christof Koch, PhD, Mindscope Program, Allen Institute, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation

I will discuss what we can reasonably state about consciousness and its neuronal footprints in the mammalian brain, in particular the cortex, how to detect its presence and how psychedelics might affect these footprints

Avi Loeb, Harvard University

ASTROBIOLOGY AND ASTROCONSCIOUSNESS

ABRAHAM (AVI) LOEB is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more).

Avi Loeb received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books, including most recently, Extraterrestrial (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), and about 800 papers (with an h-index of 117) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project in search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences the American Physical Society, and the .International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is a a former member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House, a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and a current member of the Advisory Board for "Einstein: Visualize the Impossible" of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space and in 2020 Loeb was selected among the 14 most inspiring Israelis of the last decade. Click here for Loeb's commentaries on innovation and diversity. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/

Abstract Title: The Galileo Project: In Search for Technological Interstellar Objects - Avi Loeb, Professor of Science, Harvard University

The search for extraterrestrial life is one of the most exciting frontiers in science. First tentative clues were identified close to Earth in the form of the unusual interstellar object `Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the Earth's atmosphere. The recently announced "Galileo Project" ushers the new frontier of "space archaeology" in search of extraterrestrial technological relics. The lecture will feature content from my book "Extraterrestrial", as well as the textbook "Life in the Cosmos", both published in 2021. Related material was also featured in my weekly commentaries in Scientific American and Medium.

David Chalmers, New York University

"REALITY+ : From the matrix to the metaverse".

DAVID CHALMERS

David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is the author of _The Conscious Mind_ (1996) and of Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness, for the idea of the “extended mind,” and for the thesis that virtual reality is genuine reality.

David Chalmers was featured in the New York Times Magazine, Dec. 10, 2021 - Interview with David Marchese - 'Can We Have a Meaningful Life in a Virtual World'

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy will be published by W.W. Norton (US) and Allen Lane (UK) on January 25, 2022. Here’s an excerpt.

Former Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona. Faculty positions included, UC Santa Cruz, University of Arizona, Australian National University. PhD, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Indiana University; McDonnell Fellow at Washington University; Rhodes Scholar in Pure Maths and Computer Science at the University of Adelaide in Australia. David Chalmers is Co-Founder, Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson. Chalmers’s writings include: Philosophy of Mind; The Conscious Mind; The Character of Consciousness; Constructing the World; Mind and Consciousness; Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness.

DAVID CHALMERS WEBSITE http://consc.net/

Abstract Title: Reality+: From the Matrix to the Metaverse
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, New York University
I'll argue that virtual reality is genuine reality. A simulated universe such as the Matrix could be indistinguishable from physical reality. Such a reality need not be illusory. The same goes for the Metaverse: the virtual worlds that we will create in coming decades with virtual and augmented reality technology. I will argue that Metaverse-style virtual worlds are genuine realities, and that we can live a meaningful life in these virtual worlds.

Intro Conference Reels (2016-2020)

2020 - TSC - The Science of Consciousness - Virtual - Intro Reel

2019 - TSC Interlaken

2018 - TSC Tucson - Intro Reel

2016 - TSC Tucson - Intro Reel

V i N T a G e Highlights

2014 - TSC Tucson 20th Anniversary - "It was 20 Years Ago Today ..." https://youtu.be/kl-QLUex6HQ. 

David Chalmers and Stuart Hameroff

A short film 2014 - early clips and slides.mov

2005 - What the Bleep!? Do We Know !? Film - S. Hameroff, Featured Scientist

1996 - TSC Tucson Toward a Science of Consciousness YouTube

PHOTOS

Tucson TSC 2018

San Diego TSC 2017

Tucson 2014 courtesy of consc.net - 20th Anniversary

https://consc.net/pics/tucson2014.html

In addition to organizing the biennial conferences, the TSC has engaged in activities such as:

Supporting original research in Consciousness Studies

Establishing a lecture series in Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona

Holding Summer Institutes in Consciousness Studies

Holding small focused workshops and conferences on specific topics

Sponsorship of consciousness panels at professional meetings

Fostering of interdisciplinary communications inside and outside the University of Arizona

Developing online courses, conferences and more

Holding bimonthly Consciousness Discussion Forums on campus

Sponsor/partner with numerous institutes and centers

Assisting the UofA in creating minor in Consciousness Studies (SBS)

The study of human consciousness is one of science's last great frontiers.

The 1994, the first TSC Consciousness conference "Toward a Science of Consciousness" - known as TSC - "The Science of Consciousness" was held in Tucson, Arizona at the University of Arizona Medical Center. TSC-1994 is widely regarded as a landmark event, and the subsequent series of biennial conferences in Tucson and alternate years abroad have attracted extraordinary interest. After being neglected for many years (i.e. during a period of dominance by behaviorism in psychology), interest in the science of consciousness exploded in the last decades, with much progress in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and other areas. The University of Arizona has been at the center of these developments. The Center for Consciousness Studies was formed in 1998 with a seed grant from the Fetzer Institute. Unique in its broad spectrum approach its aim was to bring together the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, social sciences, physical sciences, arts and humanities to move toward an integrated understanding of human consciousness. Other groups tend focus either on cognitive neuroscience, medicine, philosophy or purely phenomenal experiential approaches, whereas the CCS not only integrated these areas, but "thinks outside the box" of conventional wisdom. Original research on consciousness, not only to understand the origins of consciousness, but to advance therapies for mental and cognitive disorders is supported.

The Science of Consciousness (TSC) is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology.

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. The TSC conference was sponsored and produced by the original CCS Center at the University of Arizona since 1998. TSC is well known for hosting the biennial conference: 'The Science of Consciousness,’ (‘TSC’) the world's largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference addressing fundamental questions regarding consciousness, the brain, reality, and existence. It was held inTucson Arizona in even-numbered years; TSC attracted 700 to 800 neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, artificial intelligence (AI) proponents, physicists, meditators, altered-state researcher, mystics and interested lay people from all over the world.

In odd-numbered years the conference has been held in Italy, Denmark (twice), Japan, Sweden (twice), Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, Finland, San Diego and Switzerland.

2020 TSC PROGRAM

TSC ViRtual Conference 2020 - The Science of Consciousness

LINK TO ABSTRACTS

Day 1 - Monday, September 14, 2020

8:30am – 6:30pm - Workshops - Live Zoom Discussions. 1 hour each

7:00pm – 10:00pm - ‘Psychedelics Symposium’ - Livestream

10:00pm –11:00pm - ‘Consciousness Tonite’ - Livestream

List of Workshops: A- Z

ANESTHESIA, CONSCIOUSNESS & BRAIN ACTIVITY - M. Bruce MacIver, Chair - Matthew I. Banks, Divya Chander, Heonsoo Lee

‘AI’ & CONSCIOUSNESS –THREE FIGHTING PERSPECTIVES - Riccardo Manzotti, Chair - Antonio Chella, Pietro Perconti

CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE CORE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE - Elizabeth Krasnoff, Chair - Leslie Allan Combs, Panel: D. Flickinger, C. Kolles, A. Nerad, SA Schwartz, S. Taylor

EDUCATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES - Leslie Allan Combs, Chair - Thomas G. Bever, Maria Kasmirli

PLANTS, MUSHROOMS, MEDICINE & CONSCIOUSNESS - Dan 'Josh' Horner, Chair - Rajnish Khanna, Paul Stamets, Dennis McKenna

SCIENCE OF INTERCONNECTEDNESS - Helané Wahbeh. Modr - Cedric Cannard, Garret Yount, Arnaud Delorme, Dean Radin

'QUANTUM BIOLOGY' - Aarat Kalra, Chair - Daya Krishnananda, Gregory Scholes, Chris Simons

Monday evening, September 14, 2020

7:00pm - 10:00pm MST "PSYCHEDELICS SYMPOSIUM" - Livestream - PSYCHEDELICS: EXPERIENCE, THERAPY AND SCIENCE - Moderated by Andrew Weil and Stuart Hameroff - Short talks: Stuart Hameroff “Introduction”; Andrew Weil “History and overview of psychedelic usage”;

Robin Carhart-Harris “Psychedelics and brain imaging”; Julie Holland “Connection through chemistry”;

Michael Pollan “How to change your mind”; Mellody Hayes “Consciousness medicine”

Louis Schwartzberg “Psychedelics, consciousness and film”

Panel: Selen Atasoy “Psychedelics and brain harmonics”; Christopher Timmermann-Slater “DMT and human EEG”;

Ede Frecksa “Cellular effects of DMT”; Mark Rasenick “Psychedelics and neuronal signaling”;

Gül Dölen “MDMA effects in octopus”; Katja Ehrman “Psilocybin in depression 1";

Francisco Moreno “Psilocybin in depression 2”; Luis Eduardo Luna “Inner paths to outer space”;

Dennis McKenna “Psilocybin mushrooms”; Paul Stamets “Medicinal fungi”; Sue Blackmore “Psychedelic Insights?”

9:30pm - 10:00pm MST - Live Zoom Discussions -Audience Q&A

10:00pm-11:00pm MST – Entertainment, Art-Tech Submissions, Interviews,

Livestream - Consciousness Tonite, ‘Rap-Up’ with Baba Brinkman

DAY 2 - Tuesday, September 15, 2020

8:30am – 4:30pm MST Livestream Plenary Sessions PL-1, PL-2, PL-3

5:00pm – 8:00pm MST Zoom Live Concurrents C-1 – C-8, Posters PO 1.0 – PO 3.0

8:00pm– 9:00pm MST Livestream ‘Consciousness Tonite’ Entertainment, Interviews, Rap-up Baba Brinkman

Daily On-Demand: Concurrents, Posters, Art Tech, Workshops, Wellness, Plenary, Wellness, TennisCentric, Yoga, Meditation

Plenary 1 – Time and Consciousness - 8:30am -10:40am MST - Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseilles U; Dean Buonomano, UCLA; Sylvie Droit-Volet, U Clermont, Chair, Harald Atmanspacher, Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich

Plenary 2 – Reality / Illusion - 11:10am- 12:30pm MST - Don Hoffman, UC Irvine; Keith Frankish, U Sheffield; Chair, Eve Isham, UArizona

Plenary 3 – Psychedelic Science - 2:00pm -4:30pm MST Paul Stamets, Mycologist Medical Researcher; Christopher Timmermann-Slater, UC London; Gül Dölen, Kavli Neuroscience Institute, Johns Hopkins U Mark Rasenick, U Chicago; Chair, Stuart Hameroff, UArizona

Tuesday Concurrent Discussions

5:00pm-5:45pm MST – Live Zoom TUESDAY Concurrent Discussions (C1, C4, C7)

Zoom Channel 1: Concepts of Consciousness (C-1) Zoom Channel 2: Neural Correlates of Consciousness 1 (C-4) Zoom Channel 3: Time and Consciousness (C-7)

6:00pm-6:45pm MST – Live Zoom

TUESDAY Concurrent Discussions (C2, C5, C6)

Zoom Channel 1: AI / Machine Consciousness (C-2) Zoom Channel 2: Ketamine and Consciousness (C-5) Zoom Channel 3: Education and Consciousness Studies (C-6)

7:00pm-7:45pm MST - Live Zoom-Concurrent & Poster Discussions (C3, C8, PO-1.0, PO-2.0, PO-3.0)

Zoom Channel 1: Idealism, Panpsychism & Neutral Monism (C-3) Zoom Channel 2: Quantum Biology (C-8)

Zoom Channel 3: Posters PO-1.0 Philosophy PO-2.0 Neuroscience PO-3.0 Cog Sci/Psych

8-9 pm MST – Entertainment, Art-Tech Submissions, Interviews,

Livestream - Consciousness Tonite, ‘Rap-Up’ with Baba Brinkman

Day 3 Wednesday, September 16, 2020

8:30am – 4:30pm Livestream Plenary Sessions 4,5,6

5:00 pm – 8:00pm Zoom Live Concurrents (C-9, C-10, C-15) (C-11, C-16, C-17) (C-13, C-14, C-22)

Daily On-Demand 24/7 hours - Concurrent Sessions, Posters, Art Tech, Workshops, Wellness, TennisCentric, Yoga, Meditation

8:00pm – 9:00pm Livestream ‘Consciousness Tonite’ Entertainment, Interviews, Rap-up Baba Brinkman

Plenary 4 – Vibrations, Resonance & Consciousness - 8:30am-10:40am MST - Selen Atasoy,Oxford U; Tam Hunt, UCSB; Jonathan Schooler, UCSB; Lawrence Zbikowski U Chicago; Chair, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, NIMS

Plenary 5 – Enhancing Consciousness with Brain Stimulation - 11:10am-12:30pm MST - Alexander Bystritsky, UCLA; Jay Sanguinetti, U Arizona; Chair, Justin Riddle

Plenary 6 - Psychedelic Experience - 2:00pm-4:10pm MST - Dennis McKenna, Heffter Research Institute; Sue Blackmore, U Plymouth; Luis Eduardo Luna, Wasiwaska Research Center; Ede Frecska, U Debrecen; Chair, Elizabeth Krasnoff, CIIS

Wednesday Live Zoom Concurrent Discussions

5:00pm-5:45pm MST C-10, C-9, C-15

Zoom Channel 1: Panpsychism (C-10) Zoom Channel 2: Medicine/Healing (C-9) Zoom Channel 3: Neural Correlates of Consciousness 2 (C-15)

6:00pm-6:45pm MST C-11, C-16, C-17

Zoom Channel 1: Hard Problem (C-11) Zoom Channel 2: Evolution & Consciousness (C-16) Zoom Channel 3: Psychedelics & Mystical Experiences (C-17)

7:00pm-7:45pm MST C-13, C-14, C-22

Zoom Channel 1: Ontology of Consciousness 1 (C-13) Zoom Channel 2: Quantum Brain Theories (C-14) Zoom Channel 3: Meditation & Mysticism (C-22)

8:00 PM - 9:00PM MST – Livestream - Consciousness Tonite, Entertainment, Interviews, ‘Rap-Up’ by Baba Brinkman

Day 4 Thursday, September 17, 2020

7:30am – 8:00am Livestream Guided Meditation with Deepak Chopra - I am the universe

8:30am – 6:00pm Livestream Plenary Sessions 7-10

6:30pm – 7:30pm Livestream film discussion; “Infinite Potential – The life and ideas of David Bohm”

Daily On-Demand 24/7 hours - Concurrent Sessions, Posters, Art Tech, Workshops, Wellness, Previous Livestream Plenaries, Wellness, TennisCentric, Yoga, Meditation

Plenary 7 – Predictive Coding and Consciousness - 8:30am-10:40am MST - Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute; Peter Kok, UC London; Mark Miller, U Sussex; Chair, Mary Peterson, UArizona

Plenary 8 – The Role of Consciousness in Decision Making - 11:10am-1:40pm MST - Uri Maoz, Chapman U; Aaron Schurger, Chapman U; Eve Isham, U Arizona; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke U; Chair, Jay Sanguinetti, UArizona

Plenary 9 – Is the Universe Conscious? - 2:10pm-4:40pm MST - Miri Albahari, U Western Australia; Deepak Chopra, Chopra Global; Paavo Pylkkänen, U Helsinki Finland & U Skövde, Sweden; Philip Goff, Durham University; Chair, Stuart Hameroff, UArizona, CCS

Plenary 10 - Keynote - 5:00pm-6:00pm MST - Antonio Damasio, USC - ‘Sensing minds and consciousness’ - Chair, Richard Lane, UArizona

FILM - INFINITE POTENTIAL – THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF DAVID BOHM 6:30pm-7:30pm MST

Film: Infinite Potential - About the Film: https://www.infinitepotential.com/the-film/

Livestream of Film Pre-Recorded Panel Discussion (recorded 7/18/20) "Quantum Approaches to Consciousness" - Stuart Hameroff, Modr.

More about the Recorded Panelists:
Stuart Hameroff, M.D. Moderator— American Anesthesiologist, Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona where he's also the Chair, The Science of Consciousness Conferences. Dr. Hameroff is the co-originator of the Penrose-Hameroff "Orch OR" theory.
Harald Atmanspacher—currently works at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich. He does research in the theory of complex systems, foundations of quantum theory, and selected aspects of mind-matter research.
Sabine Hossenfelder—is an author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she leads the Analog Systems for Gravity Duals group.
Paavo Pylkkänen—is a Philosopher of Mind. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Skövde and lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is known for his work on mind-body studies, building on David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular Bohm's view of the cosmos as "enfolding" and "unfolding."

8:00pm - 9:00pm MST – Consciousness Tonite, Entertainment, Interviews, ‘Rap-Up’ by Baba Brinkman

Day 5 Friday, September 18, 2020 Plenary Sessions - Livestream (Discussions/Q & A included)

Plenary 11 – Quantum Consciousness - 8:30am-11:00am MST

Harmut Neven, Google Quantum AI; Peter Read, Vitruvian; Anirban Bandyopadhyay, NIMS; Stuart Hameroff, U Arizona; Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford U; Chair, George Musser

Plenary 12 - Keynote - 12:00 Noon-1:30pm MST - Edvard Moser, Nobel Laureate, NTNU, Trondheim; "Space and Time in the Brain" - Chair, Carol Barnes, UArizona

Plenary 13 - Origin of EEG - 2:00pm-4:30pm MST - Bruce MacIver, Stanford U; Paul L. Nunez, Tulane; Horacio Cantiello, UNSE Argentina; Alysson Muotri, UCSD; Chair, John J.B. Allen, UArizona

Friday Live Zoom Concurrent Discussions

5:00pm-5:45pm MST - Live Zoom Concurrent Discussions C-18, C-19, C-20

Zoom Channel 1: Ontology of Consciousness 2 (C-18) Zoom Channel 2: Neural Correlates of Consciousness 3 (C-19) Zoom Channel 3 Anesthesia and Consciousness (C-20)

6:00pm-6:45pm MST -Live Zoom Concurrent & Poster Discussions - C-12, C-21, PO 4.0 & PO 5.0

Zoom Channel 1: Phenomenology and Consciousness (C-12); Zoom Channel 2: Dreaming and the Unconscious (C-21); Zoom Channel 3: Poster Discussions PO-4.0 Physics/Biology, PO-5.0 Experiential

7:00pm-7:45pm MST - Live Zoom Concurrent Discussions, Poster & Art-Tech-Health Discussions.

C-23, C-24, PO 6.0 and Art-Tech-Health Demos & C-25

Zoom Channel 1: Nonlocal Consciousness (C-23) Zoom Channel 2: Visual, Literature (C-24) PO-6.0 Culture and Humanities & Art/Tech/Health Demos Zoom Channel 3: Fundamental Models (C-25)

8:00PM - 10:00PM MST – Consciousness Tonite, Interviews, ‘Rap-Up’ by Baba Brinkman

Poetry Slam, Talent Show/ Zombie Blues.

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Opening Reel - short - Tucson - Online 2020

Retro Mix - Long 2020

TSC 2020 - Tucson Online Program | Abstracts

SESSION VIDEOS

ARCHIVES 2010-2012

Additional PRESS 2012

How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Oct 12, 2012

Hameroff, S., Comment on “Consciousness, biology and quantum hypotheses” in Quantum brain biology complements neuronal assembly approaches to consciousness by Baars and Edelman, S. Hameroff, 2012; July 11

Zinc, microtubules and Alzheimer's disease, in PLoS One

Anesthetics, tubulin and post-operative cognitive dysfunction, in PLoS One

Transcranial ultrasound (TUS) effects on mental states: A pilot study, in Brain Stimulation

Scientists claim brain memory code cracked, Science Daily, March 9, 2012

Travis J. A. Craddock, Jack A. Tuszynski, Stuart Hameroff. Cytoskeletal Signaling: Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation? PLoS Computational Biology, 2012; 8 (3): e1002421 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421

Turning consciousness upside down: Magic mushrooms and the fractal brain hierarchy Review of Carhart-Harris et al (2012)

VIDEO 2012

Arizona Public Media/ Arizona Illustrated / PBS, NPR / April 10, 2012 Doctor Asks: What Is Consciousness? Producer Luis Carrion [video]

Toward a Science of Consciousness Tucson, 2012, Fractal Consciousness - video

TEDx Future of Consciousness-video, Tucson 2012

Research in the News 2012

Transcranial ultrasound (TUS) effects on mental states: A pilot study Brain Stimulation (5/ 6/12)

Post-Anesthesia Dementia, Like Alzheimer's, Looks Micro-'Tubular' Newswise (6/26/12)

The Molecular Architecture of Memory - How and where are memories formed and stored? Psychology Today (4/12/12)

Zinc Imbalance in Brains of Alzheimer’s Patients Points to New Therapies Newswise (3/26/12)

Tucson Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked PLoS Computational Biology (3/8/12)

Zinc, microtubules and Alzheimer's disease, PLos One (3/23/12)

Anesthetics, tubulin and post-operative cognitive dysfunction PLoS One 6/25/12

How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will, Hameroff, S., Front Integr Neurosci Epub (10/12/12)

TSC-2012

April TSC Conference News/Interviews

Loews Ventana Canyon

Arizona Public Media/ Arizona Illustrated, Producer, Luis Carrión

Filmmaker Nick Day presents conversations with a few Plenary

UA News - outlines conference, debate

filmmaker Matt Faw talks w N.Theise, R. Carthart-Haris, J. Shear

Newswise / Consciousness Conference Covers All Angles

Synesthesia with author M. Seaberg

NYAS

Tasting the Universe-Science & Impact of Expanded Sensory Wiring

12 min. teaser War of the World Views Debate

Outline of 2012 Program-initial

AZ Public Media-Desert Health Dining with Deepak

TSC Conference 2019 - Interlaken Switzerland

The Science of Consciousness - Interlaken 2019

2019 - Interlaken Switzerland - Program Abstracts

Consciousness Central - Interviews

SESSION VIDEOS

TSC Conference 2018 - Tucson

April 2-7, 2018 - Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson Arizona

The Science of Consciousness

Opening Trailer

Tucson Program Abstracts

SESSION VIDEOS

TSC - Tucson
Abstract Book and Conference Program | Plenary Sessions - VIDEOS

General Conference Information | Additional Program Info

TSC 2018 Conference Themes:

Origin and Evolution of Life and Consciousness | Panpsychism, Idealism and Spacetime Geometry | Quantum Brain Biology | Time, Free Will and Consciousness

TSC Conference 2015 - Helsinki

2015 Helsinki Program

TSC Conference 2014 - TUCSON

Quantum Mind Conferences

1999-2007

QM 3 2007 17-20 July, 2007, Salzburg

Link to QM 3 Program

QM 2 2003 15-19 March, 2003, Tucson

QM2 - The second Quantum Mind conference was held in March 2003 at the Tucson Convention Center. 300 participants

QM 1 1999 August, 1999 Flagstaff, Arizona. (NAU) 100 participants

Link to QM 1 Program

2014 – TSC 21 Apr 21-26, 2014 – Tucson, Arizona

2013 – TSC 20 Mar 3-9, 2013 – Agra, India

2012 – TSC 19 Apr 9-14, 2012 – Tucson, Arizona

2011 – TSC 18 May 2-8, 2011 – Stockholm, Sweden

2010 – TSC 17 Apr 12-17, 2010 – Tucson, Arizona

2009 – TSC 16 June 11-14, 2009 – Hong Kong, China

2008 – TSC 15 Apr 8-12, 2008 – Tucson, Arizona

2007 – TSC 14 July 23-27, 2007 – Budapest, Hungary

2006 – TSC 13 Apr 4-8, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona

2005 – TSC 12 Aug 17-20, 2005 – Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 – TSC 11 Apr 7-11, 2004 – Tucson, Arizona

2003 – TSC 10 July 6-10, 2003 – Prague, Czech Republic

2002 – TSC 9 Apr 8-12, 2002 – Tucson, Arizona

2001 – TSC 8 Aug 6-11, 2001 – Skövde, Sweden

2000 – TSC 7 Apr 10-15, 2000 – Tucson, Arizona

1999 – TSC 6 May 28, 1999 – Tokyo, Japan

1998 – TSC 5 Apr 27- May 2,1998 – Tucson, Arizona

1997 – TSC 4 Aug 18-24, 1997 – Elsinore, Denmark

1996 – TSC 3 Apr 8-13, 1996 – Tucson, Arizona

1995 – TSC 2 Ischia, Italy

1994 – TSC 1 Apr 12-17, 1994 – Tucson, Arizona

SUMMARY

The Science of Consciousness – since 1994

TUCSON & INTERNATIONAL - Conferences

1994 – TSC 1 Apr 12-17, 1994 – Tucson, Arizona

1995 – TSC 2 Ischia, Italy

1996 – TSC 3 Apr 8-13, 1996 – Tucson, Arizona

1997 – TSC 4 Aug 18-24, 1997 – Elsinore, Denmark

1998 – TSC 5 Apr 27- May 2,1998 – Tucson, Arizona

1999 – TSC 6 May 28, 1999 – Tokyo, Japan

2000 – TSC 7 Apr 10-15, 2000 – Tucson, Arizona

2001 – TSC 8 Aug 6-11, 2001 – Skövde, Sweden

2002 – TSC 9 Apr 8-12, 2002 – Tucson, Arizona

2003 – TSC 10 July 6-10, 2003 – Prague, Czech Republic

2004 – TSC 11 Apr 7-11, 2004 – Tucson, Arizona

2005 – TSC 12 Aug 17-20, 2005 – Copenhagen, Denmark

2006 – TSC 13 Apr 4-8, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona

2007 – TSC 14 July 23-27, 2007 – Budapest, Hungary

2008 – TSC 15 Apr 8-12, 2008 – Tucson, Arizona

2009 – TSC 16 June 11-14, 2009 – Hong Kong, China

2010 – TSC 17 Apr 12-17, 2010 – Tucson, Arizona

2011 – TSC 18 May 2-8, 2011 – Stockholm, Sweden

2012 – TSC 19 Apr 9-14, 2012 – Tucson, Arizona

2013 – TSC 20 Mar 3-9, 2013 – Agra, India

2014 – TSC 21 Apr 21-26, 2014 – Tucson, Arizona

2015 – TSC 22 June 9-13, 2015 – Helsinki, Finland

2016 – TSC 23 Apr 25-30, 2016 – Tucson, Arizona

2017 – TSC 24 June 5-10, 2017 – San Diego, California

2018 – TSC 25 Apr 2-7, 2018 – Tucson, Arizona

2019 – TSC 26 June 25-28, 2019 – Interlaken, Switzerland

2020 – TSC 27 Sept 14-18, 2020 rescheduled-virtual (April 12-18, 2020 -canceled) Tucson, AZ

2021 - SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM - Science and Roger Penrose - Aug 3-6, 2021 4 day Webinar – virtual

2022 - TSC 28 April 18-23, 2022 Tucson, Arizona - hybrid

2023 - TSC 29 Taormina Italy May 22-28, 2023

2023 - Special Symposium Encinitas, California

2024 - TSC 30th Annual Apr 22-26, 2024 Tucson, Arizona

2025 - TSC 31 Barcelona Spain July 6-13, 2025

2026 - TSC 32 San Diego, California Relaunch

October 11-16, 2026. - Upcoming

TUCSON CONFERENCES

1994 - Tucson 1 Apr 12-17, 1994

1996 - Tucson 2 Apr 8-13, 1996

1998 - Tucson 3 April 27-May 2, 1998

2000 - Tucson 4 April 10-15, 2000

2002 - Tucson 5 April 8-12, 2002

2004 - Tucson 6 April 7-11, 2004

2006 - Tucson 7 April 4-8, 2006

2008 - Tucson 8 April 8-12, 2008

2010 - Tucson 9 April 12-17, 2010

2012 - Tucson 10 April 9-14, 2012

2016 - Tucson 12 Apr 25-30, 2016

2018 - Tucson 13 Apr 2-7, 2018

2014 - Tucson 11 Apr 21-26, 2014 - 20th Anniversary

2020 - Tucson 15 Sept 14-18, 2020 - Online Version

2021 - Tucson 16 Aug 3-6, 2021 - Science & Roger Penrose Webinar

2022 - Tucson 17 April 18-23, 2022 - Hybrid - April 18-22, 2022

2024 - Tucson 18 TSC 30th Annual Apr 22-26, 2024 Tucson, Arizona

Overseas - THE Science of Consciousness - Co-Sponsored

"INTERNATIONAL" ConferenceS since 1995

(Year, city, country, co-CHAIRS)

The alternate year international co-sponsored TSC conferences held overseas in cooperation with partner organizations and institutions.

2025 Barcelona Spain - Stuart Hameroff, Xavi Ginesta

2023 Taormina, Italy - Antonio Chella (Università di Palermo); Riccardo Manzotti (Università IULM, Milano); Pietro Perconti (Università di Messina)

About

The Science of Consciousness - Past Conferences

contact: arlmonte@arizona.edu

The Tucson Conferences - Biennial

Videos TSC and CCS Programs-Archive

YouTube 1 The Science of Consciousness Conferences & Programs: 2010-2025

Channel 2: UofA Consciousness additional 2012 (archived)

Stuart Hameroff MD, Anesth CCS Director - COM-UA website

Abi Behar Montefiore - asst dir, sr. program mgr

520-247-5785 text/messages arlmonte@arizona.edu

The Science of Consciousness – since 1994

1994 – TSC 1 Apr 12-17, 1994 – Tucson, Arizona

1995 – TSC 2 - Ischia, Italy

1996 – TSC 3 Apr 8-13, 1996 – Tucson, Arizona

1997 – TSC 4 Aug 18-24, 1997 – Elsinore, Denmark

1998 – TSC 5 Apr 27- May 2,1998 – Tucson, Arizona

1999 – TSC 6 May 28, 1999 – Tokyo, Japan

2000 – TSC 7 Apr 10-15, 2000 – Tucson, Arizona

2001 – TSC 8 Aug 6-11, 2001 – Skövde, Sweden

2002 – TSC 9 Apr 8-12, 2002 – Tucson, Arizona

2003 – TSC 10 July 6-10, 2003 – Prague, Czech Republic

2004 – TSC 11 Apr 7-11, 2004 – Tucson, Arizona

2005 – TSC 12 Aug 17-20, 2005 – Copenhagen, Denmark

2006 – TSC 13 Apr 4-8, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona

2007 – TSC 14 July 23-27, 2007 – Budapest, Hungary

2008 – TSC 15 Apr 8-12, 2008 – Tucson, Arizona

2009 – TSC 16 June 11-14, 2009 – Hong Kong, China

2010 – TSC 17 Apr 12-17, 2010 – Tucson, Arizona

2011 – TSC 18 May 2-8, 2011 – Stockholm, Sweden

2012 – TSC 19 Apr 9-14, 2012 – Tucson, Arizona

2013 – TSC 20 Mar 3-9, 2013 – Agra, India

2014 – TSC 21 Apr 21-26, 2014 – Tucson, Arizona

2015 – TSC 22 June 9-13, 2015 – Helsinki, Finland

2016 – TSC 23 Apr 25-30, 2016 – Tucson, Arizona

2017 – TSC 24 June 5-10, 2017 – San Diego, California

2018 – TSC 25 Apr 2-7, 2018 – Tucson, Arizona

2019 – TSC 26 June 25-28, 2019 – Interlaken, Switzerland

2020 – TSC 27 Sept 14-18, 2020 rescheduled - virtual (April 12-18, 2020 -canceled) Tucson, AZ

2021 - Science and Roger Penrose - Aug 3-6, 2021 4 day Webinar – virtual

2022 - TSC 28 April 18-23, 2022 - Tucson, Arizona - hybrid

2023 - TSC 29 May 22-28, 2023 - Taormina Italy

2023 - Special Symposium - August 18-20, 2023 - Encinitas, California

2024 - TSC 30th Annual Apr 22-26, 2024 - Tucson, Arizona

2025 - TSC 31 July 6-13, 2025 - Barcelona Spain

Relaunch ****

2026 - TSC 32 October 11-16, 2026 - San Diego

tsc2026.org

*** YouTube 1 The Science of Consciousness Conferences & Programs: 2010-2025

Channel 2: UofA Consciousness additional 2012 (archived materials)

TSC Conference Videos/Trailers/Sessions and Conference information:

YouTube “Playlists”

TSC Conferences - Program Summaries, Artwork, Press

2014-2025

TSC Conference 2025 - Barcelona July 6-13

TSC Conference 2024 - Tucson - 30th Annual

TSC Conference 2023 - Taormina Sicily

May 22-28, 2023 - TSC 2023 Taormina, Sicily, Italy

Program Committee

Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness

August 18-20, 2023- ENCINITAS California - Summer Symposium

(co-sponsors: CIHS & CCS held at CIHS campus, Encinitas CA (Thomas Brophy, Stuart Hameroff)

PROGRAM AUG 16 Final Program.docx

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS AUG 16 Abstracts by Acceptance Type Aug 16 Final Report Encinitas.docx

AUTHORS-AFFILIATIONS INDEX AUG 16 Final Presenters + Affiliations Report Encinitas.docx

VIDEOS PLENARY TALKS SHOWCASE TALKS SHORT TALKS

TSC Conference 2022 - TUCSON

The Science of Consciousness Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson Arizona April 18-22, 2022

2021 - Science & Roger Penrose - Virtual

in celebration of his 90th birthday and Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)

Now available on the CCS YouTube Channel

The Free Webinar was held: August 3-6, 2021 (4 sessions; 20 speakers)

On the occasion of his 90th Birthday and Nobel Prize

About the Webinar & Background links / Speaker Bios & Abstracts / Program Schedule /

Session Videos - final

Session 1 - OVERVIEW - BLACK HOLES - R. Penrose, S. Hameroff, R. Genzel, R. Blandford

Session 2 - QUANTUM MEASUREMENT – OBJECTIVE REDUCTION OR – R. Blandford, I. Fuentes-Guridi, H. Ulbricht, D. Bouwmeester, P. Stamp

Session 3 - CONSCIOUSNESS – ORCH OR & PANEL ON QUANTUM BIOLOGY OF MICROTUBULES - S. Hameroff, G. Scholes, A. Muotri, J. Riddle (Session Chair) A. Kalra, T. Craddock, A. Dogariu, MB MacIver, A.Bandyopadhyay, J.Tuszyński (Panel Chair)

Session 4 - CCC-A PRE-BIG BANG UNIVERSE: CONFORMAL CYCLIC COSMOLOGY R. Penrose, P. Tod, B. Keating, K. Meissner, V. Gurzadyan

PROGRAM ARCHIVES - TSC CONFERENCES & PROGRAMS

2022

PLENARY 3 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm MST
BRAIN CONNECTIVITY

PLENARY 4 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am MST
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

PLENARY 5 - Keynote 2 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm MST
PSYCHEDELICS

PLENARY 6 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm MST
PSYCHEDELIC MECHANISMS