The Science of Consciousness - Past Conferences

2020 TSC PROGRAM 

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 Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies. 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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