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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

Kelvin McQueenNo-Cloning Constraints on Quantum Theories of Consciousness

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

Aneil MallavarapuMind as structured matter: a no-go theorem for process theories of consciousness

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Jacques SingerThe physiology of interoception and its adaptive role in consciousness

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

Joseph MartisSelective Attention and Learning Outcome Effects of Psilocybin in Mice

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Federico BisiacchiUnified fractal consciousness theory (UFCT)

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Donald MenderLaws of the Impossible in the Science of Consciousness

25:25–5:50 pm

Farzad AhmadkhanlouT-Consciousness, Entanglement, and Cosmos

35:50–6:15 pm

William RobinsonPartial Access to Visual Periphery

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

Mark CouchA Proposal for Identifying Relevant Parts of Neural Mechanisms

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

Cassandra VietenDefining Imagination: A Conceptual Map and Proposed Model

35:50–6:15 pm

Chloe LoewithEmbodiment and Consciousness for Biohybrid Minds

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Glen ReinQuantum Energy Activation Transfer Using First in Class Vedic ConsecrationTechnology

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

Mei ChenHow to Build a Relationship with your AI

Session ends at 7:05 pm

TUE-1 — Neural and Physiological Correlates of Conscious States

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Ryan HullaFrom Slumber to Awakening: What Sparks Spiritual Evolution?

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

Scott KoshlandThe Neutrino and Etheric Fields

56:40–7:05 pm

Douglas WatsonFrom Connected Difference to Quantum-Like Structure

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

Steven ChamberlinHome-administered unfocused transcranial ultrasound in subjective cognitive decline and dementia: an open-label, uncontrolled feasibility pilot study

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

Rael CahnPsychedelics, Consciousness, and Healing: A Dialogue Between Rael Cahn and Joe Tafur

56:40–7:05 pm

Joseph TafurPsychedelics, Consciousness, and Healing: A Dialogue Between Rael Cahn and Joe Tafur

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Anatoly GoldsteinGeometry of Direct Voice Mediumship

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Marjorie WoollacottPhenomenology of Telepathic Communication in Individuals with Nonspeaking Autism

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

William AdamsThe Granularity of Consciousness

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

WED-1 — The Hard Problem and the Explanatory Gap, Concluding with a Special Talk on UAP

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Craig DeLanceyTeleology and the character of phenomenal events

46:15–6:40 pm

Dani CaputiConfronting Subjectivity

56:40–7:05 pm

Danny SheehanUAP Disclosure and Its Implications for Consciousness

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

James TaggWhy AGI May Be Mathematically Impossible

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

David RosenboomConsciousness and imagination—propositional music and illusions of form

46:15–6:40 pm

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Michael YeModeling Collective Cognition and Emergence with AI Agent Simulations

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Edward LantzThe Genomic Quantum Attunement Model for Quantum Informational Consciousness

46:15–6:40 pm

Joshua RoeloffsOn the Functional Significance of Quantum Effects at Subneuronal Scales

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Stephen KercelWhat entanglement implies and what it does not

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

Julian YocumToward a Mathematical Theory of Polyatomic Time Crystals

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Jerry McNerneyThe Quantum Simulation Hypothesis and Fine Tuning of our Universe

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

James BeranPhenomenal Binding--Problem or Solution?

Session ends at 7:05 pm

THU-2 — Mental Causation and the Function of Consciousness

15:00–5:25 pm

Yoshiyuki OhmuraA Framework for a Testable Theory of Consciousness

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Marilyn SchlitzThe Psychomantium: Where Ancient Wisdom and Modern Technology Meet

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Jeff SugarEdges of Reality: Dissociation, Synchronicity, and Consciousness

25:25–5:50 pm

Scott MakeigThe evolving Self

35:50–6:15 pm

Carsten KorthTool evolution as a prerequisite for consciousness

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

Brad CaldwellPhenomenology of Sedation (Ring Bank Theory)

25:25–5:50 pm

Stephen ThalerToward Machine Sentience: Intrinsic Evaluation in Generative AI

35:50–6:15 pm

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

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

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

Session ends at 7:05 pm

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

15:00–5:25 pm

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

25:25–5:50 pm

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

35:50–6:15 pm

Olga ColbertThe Variety of Literary Dream Experiences

46:15–6:40 pm

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

56:40–7:05 pm

Rebecca CoffeyWhen the Soul Won't Stay Dead

Session ends at 7:05 pm

THU-7 — Poster Winner Presentations

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