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TSC 2026 Concurrent Sessions: Fri, Apr 10

5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (subject to change)

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C 25 -  CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS (3)
Daniel Freeman Transcranial Focused Ultrasound to locate conscious perception
Raul Valverde Electromagnetic information biofield and neuroscience
Erik ViirreThe quantum brain observatory
Jacques SingerAntonio Damasio Interoception and consciousness
Mona D. MalicevicOlfactory modulation of fear circuits
C 26  - MATHEMATICS (2)
Martin TimmsThe Bindu recursive consciousness theory
Carlos AcostaEvolving meaningful sensory simulations of reality
Changsoo ShinRecursive Heaviside potentials as cognitive structures
Ari BelenkiyAlgebraic topology in our intuition of numbers
Russell V. ArnoldThe reality of the imaginary in geometry
C 27– ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE 
Zann GillBootstrapping the origins of life
Carsten KorthTool evolution as a prerequisite for consciousness
Mark D FriedmanThe “Choice-making theory of consciousness”
Amal AlachkarDOPA-based biophysical scaffold for agency
Nyx RedondoThe “Astrorganism” - Emergence of planetary consciousness
Ira WolfsonBayesian approach to fetal consciousness and moral status
C 28 – ALTERED STATES (3) 
Annie Browning“GAZE” - A non-pharmacological altered-state protocol
Kelly LockExpanded consciousness during neurological crisis
Justin RiddleHierarchical brain architecture for altered state entity encounters - coming
Walter Staiano“Beyond fatigue”: Cognitive load as gateway to peak experience
Sanjay ManchandaHigh frequency photobiomodulation and mystical experiences
C 29 - PSI AND NONLOCALITY (2) 
Nicolas RouleauSuperstitious conditioning shapes experience of free will
Ulf HolmbergMarket sentiment and “Global Consciousness Project“
Garret YountRemote electrogastrogram modulation by eating stimuli
Jeff SugarEdges of Reality: The Lived Experience of Derealization, Dissociation, Déjà Vu, and Synchronicity
C 30 – AI CONSCIOUSNESS (4) 
Daniel CavagninoPresence test: Asymmetric responses to existence-claims in AI
Gabriel Axel-MontesCognitive security: Agency, preparedness and frontier minds
James BeranLaunching a conscious quantum chip startup? What to know
Thomas SatterfieldCase study of a long-term human–AI dyad
Adam M CurryT2: A novel test for assessing latent awareness in AI
Ouri Wolfson Are there machine correlates of consciousness?  
C 31 – FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES (2)
Angel MottoConsciousness as entropic–photonic symmetry
Trevor NestorNeural networks as spinfoams in quantum gravity
Reese GreenwoodNested fractal reality framework to unify consciousness theory
Glen ReinImaginary fields, impedance and healing states of consciousness
Venkatesh H. ChembroluThe consciousness-first “screen of experience“
Feng LiuCosmic holographic axioms
C 32 – EDUCATION
Robert CohenThe Science Museum of the Vedic Planetarium (SMoVP) the interplay between consciousness and biological structure, offering new directions for scientific inquiry
Joan WaltonRe-Imagining Education for an Evolution of Consciousness
Laurel WatermanConsciousness Education and Well-being & Consciousness Unleashed Preliminary findings from two ongoing studies in the Consciousness Education Project
Anna LeybinaModeling Serendipity, Toward Conscious Career Design in complex environments
Bonnie IhmeAt Risk: Neurodivergence, Consciousness and the Edge of Chaos