Concurrent Presentations

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

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

Rajanikant Panda,The Exceptional Lie Group E8 as a Candidate Symmetry Scaflold for Cortical State-Space Dynamics

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

Florian MüllerThe Geometry of Coherence: Boundary–Interior Reconstructibility and Neural State Stability

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

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

Jacques SingerThe physiology of interoception and its adaptive role in consciousness

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

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

Rizwan VirkThe Simulation Hypothesis: RPG vs. NPC and the parallels between AI, technoscience and religious ideas of consciousness.

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

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

Shoshannah Bryn Jones SquareRomantic Transport, Consciousness Folding, and the Climate Crisis: Mary Shelley’s Neuroscience of Awe

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

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

Dr Deepak RanadeRedefining the Default Mode Network using fMRI Bold sequences and it's role in cognition of 'Self '

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

Abraham HaskinsArt as an Algorithmic Virus: Unifying the Generative Crash and AI Value Convergence via Cognitive Affordances

Cassandra VietenDefining Imagination: A Conceptual Map and Proposed Model

Chloe LoewithEmbodiment and Consciousness for Biohybrid Minds

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

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

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

Karishma ChhabriaInformation-theoretic coupling as a mechanism for selective synchrony in oscillator network

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

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

Eric GarlandCan Momentary Ego Dissolution Permanently Reshape Awareness? Psychedelic and Meditation-Induced Self-Transcendent States Mediate the Development of Trait Mindfulness

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

Elizabeth KrasnoffBinaural Beats as Experiential “Digital Drugs”

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

Rulin XiuA Quantum Theory of Consciousness and Its Application to the Mechanism of Sleep

Scott KoshlandThe Neutrino and Etheric Fields

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

Cedric CannardHypocapnia, Autonomic Signatures, and Gamma-Band Reconfiguration During Wim Hof Breathing Method and Cold Immersion: A Comparative Study Between Naïve and Level 2 Experts

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

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

Anatoly GoldsteinGeometry of Direct Voice Mediumship

Marina WeilerStylistic and thematic evidence for authorship compatibility in the mediumistic poetry of Chico Xavier

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

Jennifer PenberthyMeditation, Psychedelic States, and After-Death Communication: Insights from Research

Marjorie WoollacottPhenomenology of Telepathic Communication in Individuals with Nonspeaking Autism

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

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

WED-1 — The Hard Problem and the Explanatory Gap

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

Justin RiddleHierarchical Brain Architecture as a Mechanism for Entity Encounters in Altered States

James TaggWhy AGI May Be Mathematically Impossible

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

Maria PatrickFrom Practice to Awareness: Longitudinal Changes in Meta-Awareness and Conscious Experience During Chin Mudra and Slow Deep Breathing

David RosenboomConsciousness and imagination—propositional music and illusions of form

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

Jason PadgettPhysics as Informatics

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

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

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

Arik Shimansky*Measuring the Unmeasurable: How Umwelt Information Content Drives the Emergence of Consciousness

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Shashank BharadwajNonlocal Strings: A Comparative-Structural Analysis of Quantum Entanglement, Vibrational Ontology, and Adi Shankaracharya’s Advaita Vedanta

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

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?

Kris KrügQuantum Aesthetic Judgment: A Novel Approach to AI Consciousness Detection

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

Anna MikedaBuilding the Second Floor: Phenomenal Experience, Valence, and Genuine Stakes in Machine Consciousness

THU-2 — Mental Causation and the Function of Consciousness

Yoshiyuki OhmuraA Framework for a Testable Theory of Consciousness

Carsten KorthTool evolution as a prerequisite for consciousness

Marilyn SchlitzThe Psychomantium: Where Ancient Wisdom and Modern Technology Meet

Joel FrohlichThe Dawn of Awareness: When does consciousness first develop in human life?

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

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

Michael CremoThe Harder Problem: The Boundary Problem in Consciousness Studies

Jeff SugarEdges of Reality: Dissociation, Synchronicity, and Consciousness

Scott MakeigThe evolving Self

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

Morgan HealeyA network for self-transcendence derived from patients with brain lesions

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

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

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

Hidehiko 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

Yong LiuA Simplified 4-Channel EEG Framework for Bedside Consciousness Assessment in the ICU: Validation via Integrated Information Theory and Single-Session Repetitive Median Nerve Stimulation

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

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

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

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.