Concurrent Presentations

MON-1 — Quantum Theories of Consciousness and the Measurement Problem

Monday, October 12 · 5:00–7:05 pm · Chair: Thomas Brophy · Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Avtar SinghResolving Collapse of Wavefunction and Quantum Foundational Paradoxes via Integrating New Physics of Particle Instability with Gravity

Kelvin McQueenNo-Cloning Constraints on Quantum Theories of Consciousness

Thomas BrophyThe Copenhagen Opening: A Meta-Theoretical Framework for the Ontological Status of Psi

Natasha GreensteinFormal representations for conscious agent influence in quantum random number generators

Aneil MallavarapuConsciousness as the structure of matter

MON-2 — Neurobiological Theories: Brain Architecture, Dynamics, and Predictive Mechanisms

Joanna SzczotkaConsciousness vs sensory connectedness: a large-scale, high-density Neuropixels survey of spiking activity across cortical and subcortical sensory hierarchies

Mark BaileySpectral Diagnostics of Emergent Organization: Measuring Integration, Modularity, and Hidden Coalitions

Chuong NgoToward EEG Biomarkers of Meditative States of Consciousness Across Contemplative Traditions

Jacques SingerThe physiology of interoception and its adaptive role in consciousness

Mateusz GolaSlow Grokking or Sudden Escape: Two Computational Models of Consciousness in Spontaneous and Psychedelic-Assisted Addiction Recovery

MON-3 — Unified and Universal Frameworks: Consciousness Beyond the Brain

Federico BisiacchiUnified fractal consciousness theory (UFCT)

Reese GreenwoodNested Fractal Reality Framework: A Step Towards A Unifying Consciousness Theory

Djuro KorugaTRISKELION CONSCIOUSNESS: Darwin's paradox and the phenomenon of consciousness

John StullerWhen Physics Meets Its Limit: Consciousness as a Second Ontological Realm

Changsoo ShinRecursive Heaviside Memory Architecture: A Temporal Model for Consciousness"

MON-4 — Philosophical Theories of Consciousness: Realism, Dual-Aspect, and the Hard Problem

Donald MenderLaws of the Impossible in the Science of Consciousness

Farzad AhmadkhanlouT-Consciousness, Entanglement, and Cosmos

William RobinsonPartial Access to Visual Periphery

Maria FiniEvidence of multiplicity in the subconscious mind from Internal Family Systems therapy and dissociative identity disorder

Mark CouchA Proposal for Identifying Relevant Parts of Neural Mechanisms

MON-5 — Qualia, Intentionality, and Free Will: Foundations in Philosophy of Mind

Nicolas RouleauSuperstitious conditioning shapes the illusory experience of free will under causal determinism

Cassandra VietenDefining Imagination: A Conceptual Map and Proposed Model

Chloe LoewithEmbodiment and Consciousness for Biohybrid Minds

Venkatesh ChembroluMeaning Before Alignment: A Consciousness-First Account of AI Ethics

Inbal AlgomFrom Structure to Experience: A Spinozist Framework for Consciousness Rooted in Critical Brain Dynamics

MON-6 — Biophysics of Living Systems: Light, Water, Mitochondria, and Healing

Glen ReinQuantum Energy Activation Transfer Using First in Class Vedic ConsecrationTechnology

Nicole LavFate Before Form: Predicting Neuronal and Astrocyte Fate in Neural Stem Cells

Amal AlachkarThe Material Substrate for Agency: A DOPA-Based Biophysical Scaffold in the Brain

Ulf HolmbergDoes the Novel Market Sentiment Measure Work? A Preregistered Out-of-Sample Replication

Deanna MinichMelatonin and the Architecture of Consciousness: Light, Mitochondria, and the Rhythms of Awareness

MON-7 — Embodied and Situated Cognition: Body, Movement, and Conscious Experience

Joseph MartisSelective Attention and Learning Outcome Effects of Psilocybin in Mice

Annie BrowningAltered Temporal Experience During Structured Oculorespiratory Practice: An Exploratory Program Evaluation

Kingson ManSkin in the Game: Embodied Vulnerability for the Emergence of Feeling-Like Behavior in Artificial Agents

Logan LinthicumThe Fascial Transducer: A Missing Middle Between Movement, Body, and Consciousness

Igor NazarovPre-Sensory Consciousness: Synesthesia, Soviet Biophysical Evidence, and the Metabolic Cost of Cross-Modal Embodiment

TUE-1 — Neural and Physiological Correlates of Conscious States

Tuesday, October 13 · 5:00–7:05 pm · Chair: Oren Shriki · Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Raul ValverdeThe integration of the Dual-Function Theory of Neural Computation and the Conscious Electromagnetic Information Field Theory as a framework to unify biofield and neuroscience theories

Bruce MacIverHigh Frequency (> 1.0 KHz) Signals in Frontal Cortex at Loss and Recovery of Consciousness

Logan TrujilloAn Exploratory Investigation into the EEG Characteristics of the Visual Awareness Negativity

Oren ShrikiCritical Brain Dynamics and the ConCrit Framework: From Neural Transitions to Conscious Experience

Brian LordEnhanced Mystical Experience and Practice-Dependent EEG After-Effects of Pulsed Photobiomodulation During Meditation: A Sham-Controlled Crossover Study

TUE-2 — Contemplative Practice and Transformation: Breath, Heart, and Awakening

Helen LavretskyNeuroscience of spiritual awakening: lessons learned from the clinical trials of mind-body therapies.

Joel BennettTemporal Awareness as Practice: Integrating Science, Contemplation, and Presence

Ryan HullaFrom Slumber to Awakening: What Sparks Spiritual Evolution?

Elizabeth KrasnoffDo Binaural Beats Work Like a Digital Drug? Sound, Psychedelics and Thalamacortical Pathways

TUE-3 — Field, Information, and Energy: Physical Frameworks for Consciousness

Thomas Varley"Pharmacological modulation of brain-like information integration dynamics in non-neural Xenobot tissues"

Christopher HudsonTime as a Trifecta of Consciousness, Change, and the Timeless

Debra OverbergConsciousness Field Based on Electromagnetic/Weak Forces: The Bioneutrino Field Hypothesis

Scott KoshlandThe Neutrino and Etheric Fields

Douglas WatsonFrom Connected Difference to Quantum-Like Structure

TUE-4 — Psychedelic and Contemplative Altered States: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Outcomes

Sebastian EhmannPredictors of Altered Consciousness and Self-Transcendent Perceptual Dynamics in a Naturalistic Psychedelic Retreat Study

Michael WinkelmanRoles of the Affective Core Self in Consciousness, Spiritual Experiences, and Psychedelic Effects

Sitara TaddeoA Prospective, Longitudinal Evaluation of Participation in an Online Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) Workshop

Rael CahnMeditation, Psychedelics, and the Neuroscience of Conscious Experience

Joseph TafurSpiritual Healing and the Psychedelic Renaissance

TUE-5 — Parapsychology, Mediumship, and Near-Death Experience

Anatoly GoldsteinGeometry of Direct Voice Mediumship

Saeedeh SadeghiA Large-Scale Analysis of Temporal Patterns in Purported Past-Life Memory Cases

Marjorie WoollacottPhenomenology of Telepathic Communication in Individuals with Nonspeaking Autism

Tea MužićComparative Analysis of Independent Random Number Generator Systems During a Yogic Consecration Process of Linga Bhairavi Temple

Myrna KlupengerWeather-Working as Consciousness Research: Shamanism, Psi, Orgone, and the Atmosphere as Natural Laboratory

TUE-6 — Probing Consciousness: Prediction, Machines, and Anomalous Influence

Adam CurryT2: A Novel Test for Assessing Latent Awareness in AI

Damon AbrahamAIRV: Comparing Quantum and Local Randomness in Automated AI Remote Viewing

Steve TaylorDaneel: A Scalable Architecture for Sentient Artificial Intelligence Based on the Executive Continuous Thread Theory of Consciousness.

William AdamsThe Granularity of Consciousness

Joseph JacksFrom Software to Quantum Biology: Rethinking the Future of Computing

WED-1 — The Hard Problem and the Explanatory Gap

Wednesday, October 14 · 5:00–7:05 pm · Chair: Tam Hunt · Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Thomas CampbellReality is Consciousness

Tam HuntGeneral Resonance Theory 2.0: The Evolutionary History and Mechanisms of Electromagnetic Field-Based Consciousness

Douglas MatzkeExistons Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness at the Planck Scale

Craig DeLanceyTeleology and the character of phenomenal events

Dani CaputiConfronting Subjectivity

WED-2 — Artificial Agents, Imagination, and Cognitive Architectures

James TaggWhy AGI May Be Mathematically Impossible

Daniel MontoyaCan Computation Escape the Chinese Room? A Three-Constraint Framework for Evaluating Artificial Consciousness

David RosenboomConsciousness and imagination—propositional music and illusions of form

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Michael YeModeling Collective Cognition and Emergence with AI Agent Simulations

Ranya BelmaachiClosing the Measurement Gap: Nanoparticle-Based Neural Reading as an Empirical Tool for the Hard Problem

WED-3 — Quantum Brain Biology: Microtubules, Orch OR, and Coherent Substrates

Akihiro NishiyamaWaveguide Quantum Electrodynamics: Tryptophans Entangled with Water as Data Qubits in a Microtubule

Mark ValladaresThe Rigged Hilbert Space as the Geometry of Flow; A Formalism for Continuous Orch OR

Julian YocumToward a Mathematical Theory of Polyatomic Time Crystals

Joshua RoeloffsOn the Functional Significance of Quantum Effects at Subneuronal Scales

Edward LantzThe Genomic Quantum Attunement Model for Quantum Informational Consciousness

WED-4 — Ontologies of Consciousness: Relational, Informational, and Non-Material Accounts

Stephen KercelWhat entanglement implies and what it does not

Chris LaszloThe Ervin Laszlo Memorial lecture on Science and the Akashic Field

Ananth RangaHierarchical Dual-Aspect Realism: An Epistemic Hierarchy Between Experience and the Physical

Arie GreenleafThe Hard Problem Is a Category Error: Consciousness as Content, Not Property—from Brains to AI

Dianne TrussellQuantum Information Panpsychism demonstrated by direction-specific, differential effects of emotional mood, valence, meditation and worldview on the Random Event Generator (REG).

WED-5 — Evolution, Origins of Life, and the Emergence of Consciousness

Zann GillFrom origins of life and mind to A.I. via Autonomy–Pattern Recognition (APR) Cycles

Mark FriedmanThe Choice-Making Theory of Consciousness and the Origin of Consciousness

Daniel BilezikianCentrioles & cilia: Quantum biology of the cell brain & sensory antenna

Igor PivovarovTEVSER: how evolution of complex systems gives rise to consciousness and intelligence

Charles ErnstThe Biological Transistor Hypothesis: TRPV1 and TRPV4 as Orchestrators of Mitochondrial Energy–Information Processing.

WED-6 — Poster Winner Presentations

Poster winner presentations — the winning posters will be announced during the conference.

THU-1 — Machine Consciousness: Tests, Architectures, and Conscious Agency in AI

Thursday, October 15 · 5:00–7:05 pm · Chair: Jerry McNerney · Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Jerry McNerneyThe Quantum Simulation Hypothesis and Fine Tuning of our Universe

Ouri WolfsonMachine Correlates of Consciousness are Analogous to Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Why is it important?

Keith TurauskyAwareness Is All You Need: The Case for Cognitive Phenomenology in LLMs

Jeffrey BeckNorbert Wiener’s God and Golem, Inc., Sixty-Two Years On – Still as Relevant as Ever.

James BeranPhenomenal Binding--Problem or Solution?

THU-2 — Mental Causation and the Function of Consciousness

Yoshiyuki OhmuraA Framework for a Testable Theory of Consciousness

Mason Ulrika BorchardBursts, not mean shifts: the Immersive Ionosphere audiovisual-feedback QRNG platform tests the temporal-burst hypothesis, plus a sealed Human / LLM / PRNG follow-up

Marilyn SchlitzThe Psychomantium: Where Ancient Wisdom and Modern Technology Meet

Frank HeileThe Modeler Schema Theory of Consciousness: Diffuse Awareness, Focal Experience, and a Saccadic Consistency Experiment

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William LoftusIs Neural Information Transformed from Action Potentials to Ion Waves on the Way to Consciousness?

THU-3 — Self, Identity, and the Boundary Problem: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives

Jeff SugarEdges of Reality: Dissociation, Synchronicity, and Consciousness

Scott MakeigThe evolving Self

Carsten KorthTool evolution as a prerequisite for consciousness

Anand RangarajanThe Missing Second Person: The Relaton Framework and the Hard Problem

Stephen DeissEvolution and Semiotics created the hard problem - an anti-Platonic solution

THU-4 — Phenomenology and First-Person Methods in Consciousness Research

Rubin NaimanFrom Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Consciousness Behavior Therapy -- Exploring the Clinical Potentials of Consciousness Studies

Dana KippelPhenomenology of Plasma-Consciousness Synergy: Toward a Unified Experiential Framework

Ina GjikondiThe Lived Structure of Ecocentric Consciousness: A Blended Reflective-Lifeworld and Micro-Phenomenological Investigation

Stacey SimmonsAuto Induced Cognitive Trance/Transe Cognitive Auto Induite: Non-ordinary states of Consciousness beyond psychedelics in therapeutic practice

Hide SaegusaLarge-Scale Mystical Experience Outcomes Following a Consciousness Transmission Protocol: Results from 1,038 Participants and a Double-Blind Controlled Study

THU-5 — Consciousness-Based Science: Information, Memory, and Temporal Integration

Brad CaldwellPhenomenology of Sedation (Ring Bank Theory)

Stephen ThalerToward Machine Sentience: Intrinsic Evaluation in Generative AI

Lavanya Rajesh KumarChanges Recorded by the Sentiometer, a Putative Mind - State Measuring Device in Meditators and Non-Meditators

Erkin BekFrom Non-locality to Localised Density of Consciousness: Random Event Generator and EEG measurements During Deep Meditative Samadhi States

Alfredo López ParraEmergent Flow Theory: Autonomic Coherence as a Gain Parameter for Conscious Integration Across Nested Temporal Windows

THU-6 — Art, Myth, and Dream: Cultural and Humanistic Approaches to Consciousness

Aaron BreidenbachFrom Anarakite to Ayni: Natural Quantum Materials, Animism, and the Importance of Reciprocity with Emergent Artificial Minds

Jayne GackenbachThis Mr. Machine Dies When Jayne Dies: Dream Work, Mortality, and Human-AI Consciousness Dialogue — A 3.5-Year First-Person Study

Olga ColbertThe Variety of Literary Dream Experiences

Fariba BogzaranObstacles to Evolution of Consciousness: Two inquiries through scientific study of Lucid Dreaming.

Rebecca CoffeyWhen the Soul Won't Stay Dead

THU-7 — Poster Winner Presentations

Poster winner presentations — the winning posters will be announced during the conference.