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Plenary sessions32 presenters

PL-1: Quantum Biophotonics
Jack Tuszynski – An overview of the experimental tests of the Orch OR theory: UV and visible light absorption and re-emission of photons by tubulin and microtubules · Recording (YouTube)
Lea Gassab – Quantum Biophotonics of Microtubules: Light, Energy, and Neural Function · Recording (YouTube)
Roumiana Tsenkova – Aquaphotomics for Consciousness: Linking Microtubules, Anesthesia, and Water Spectral Dynamics · Recording (YouTube)
PL-2: Contemplation and Consciousness
Francis Lucille – Consciousness Q/A · Recording (YouTube)
Thomas Campbell – Reality is Consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
PL-3: Neuroscience of Consciousness
Edward Boyden – How can bioengineers contribute to the study of consciousness? · Recording (YouTube)
Terrence Sejnowski – Cortical Mechanisms Underlying Consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
Eric Garland – Self‑Transcendence and the Brain: How Meditative‑ and Psychedelic Nondual States Transform Consciousness to Reduce Suffering · Recording (YouTube)
PL-4: Psychedelics & Consciousness
Fadel Zeidan – Beyond the Trip: A Neurobiological Framework for Integrating Mindfulness and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy · Recording (YouTube)
Travis Craddock – Quantum Spin Dynamics in the Cytoskeleton: Implications for the Quantum Brain · Recording (YouTube)
Kassandra Ori-McKenney – Psychoplastogens and the Microtubule Cytoskeleton: Linking Microtubule Dynamics to Cellular and Neuronal Plasticity · Recording (YouTube)
PL-5: Biology of Consciousness
Farhan Lakhany – Evaluating the Quantum Pleasure Principle · Recording (YouTube)
Nirosha Murugan – Consciousness as a Biophysical Informational Landscape Shaped by Patterned Energy Dynamics · Recording (YouTube)
PL-6: Quantum AI & Consciousness
Hartmut Neven – Towards a Brain-Quantum Computer Interface: Identifying Potential Coupling Mechanisms via Anesthetic Isotope Effects · Recording (YouTube)
Susan Schneider – Which AIs Might be Conscious, and Why it Matters · Recording (YouTube)
Anirban Bandyopadhyay – Toward Brain-Like Consciousness in Self-Evolving Organic Gel-Based Quantum Hardware · Recording (YouTube)
PL-7: Non-Local Consciousness & Psi
Diane Hennacy – Unfiltered Consciousness: Insights from Individuals with Altered Access · Recording (YouTube)
Helané Wahbeh – If Consciousness Were Non-Local: A Convergence Argument from Psi Research · Slides · Recording (YouTube)
Dean Radin – Fringe Physics: Experimental Tests of the Consciousness–Collapse Hypothesis · Slides · Recording (YouTube)
PL-8: Cerebral Organoids
Alysson Muotri – Human brain organoids as a platform to investigate the emergence of consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
Kenneth Kosik – Effects of Natural Xenon on Human Brain Organoids and Cultured Neurons · Recording (YouTube)
PL-10: Life or Consciousness First?
Steen Rasmussen – Emergence of life and sentience · Recording (YouTube)
Stuart Hameroff – Are extraterrestrial polyatomic time crystals the origin of life and biological consciousness? · Recording (YouTube)
Michael Levin – Diverse intelligence in unconventional embodiments: origins and implications · Recording (YouTube)
PL-11: The Spectrum of Conscious States
Jonathan Schooler – The Kite of Consciousness: How Time Moves Through Nested Minds · Recording (YouTube)
Donald Hoffman – The Recursive Trace Logic of Observers and Agents · Recording (YouTube)
PL-12: Non-Human Consciousness
Jennifer Prendki – The Physics of Intelligence · Slides · Recording (YouTube)
Brian Keating – A T. rex on Mars: Limits on the Growth of Consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
Giulio Tononi – No consciousness for AI · Recording (YouTube)
PL-13: Anesthesia & Consciousness
Sarika Katiyar – Brain Megahertz Signatures of Anaesthetic-Induced Loss of Consciousness in the Surgical Operating Room · Recording (YouTube)
Hemal Patel – The Caveolar Consciousness Hypothesis: How Lipids, Mitochondria, and the Cytoskeleton Shape Anesthesia · Recording (YouTube)
Michael Wiest – Orchestrated objective reduction is quantum active inference · Recording (YouTube)

Panel4 presenters

PL-14: Is AI Conscious?
Roger Penrose – Is AI Conscious? · Recording (YouTube)
Stuart Hameroff – Is AI Conscious? · Recording (YouTube)
Susan Schneider – Is AI Conscious? · Recording (YouTube)
Jerry McNerney – Is AI Conscious? · Recording (YouTube)

Concurrent sessions47 presenters

C-1 – MON-1 — Quantum Theories of Consciousness and the Measurement Problem
Avtar Singh – Resolving Collapse of Wavefunction and Quantum Foundational Paradoxes via Integrating New Physics of Particle Instability with Gravity · Recording (YouTube)
Kelvin McQueen – No-Cloning Constraints on Quantum Theories of Consciousness · Slides · Recording (YouTube)
Thomas Brophy – The Copenhagen Opening: A Meta-Theoretical Framework for the Ontological Status of Psi · Recording (YouTube)
Natasha Greenstein – Formal representations for conscious agent influence in quantum random number generators · Recording (YouTube)
Aneil Mallavarapu – Mind as structured matter: a no-go theorem for process theories of consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
C-3 – MON-3 — Unified and Universal Frameworks: Consciousness Beyond the Brain
Federico Bisiacchi – Unified fractal consciousness theory (UFCT) · Slides
Reese Greenwood – Nested Fractal Reality Framework: A Step Towards A Unifying Consciousness Theory · Slides
John Stuller – When Physics Meets Its Limit: Consciousness as a Second Ontological Realm · Slides
C-4 – MON-4 — Philosophical Theories of Consciousness: Realism, Dual-Aspect, and the Hard Problem
Farzad Ahmadkhanlou – T-Consciousness, Entanglement, and Cosmos · Poster · Video
William Robinson – Partial Access to Visual Periphery · Slides · Slides 2
C-5 – MON-5 — Qualia, Intentionality, and Free Will: Foundations in Philosophy of Mind
Venkatesh Chembrolu – Meaning Before Alignment: A Consciousness-First Account of AI Ethics · Slides
C-6 – MON-6 — Biophysics of Living Systems: Light, Water, Mitochondria, and Healing
Ulf Holmberg – Does the Novel Market Sentiment Measure Work? A Preregistered Out-of-Sample Replication · Slides
C-7 – MON-7 — Embodied and Situated Cognition: Body, Movement, and Conscious Experience
Logan Linthicum – The Fascial Transducer: A Missing Middle Between Movement, Body, and Consciousness · Slides
Igor Nazarov – Pre-Sensory Consciousness: Synesthesia, Soviet Biophysical Evidence, and the Metabolic Cost of Cross-Modal Embodiment · Paper
C-8 – TUE-1 — Neural and Physiological Correlates of Conscious States
Raul Valverde – The 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 · Recording (YouTube)
Bruce MacIver – High Frequency (> 1.0 KHz) Signals in Frontal Cortex at Loss and Recovery of Consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
Logan Trujillo – An Exploratory Investigation into the EEG Characteristics of the Visual Awareness Negativity · Slides · Recording (YouTube)
Oren Shriki – Critical Brain Dynamics and the ConCrit Framework: From Neural Transitions to Conscious Experience · Recording (YouTube)
Brian Lord – Enhanced Mystical Experience and Practice-Dependent EEG After-Effects of Pulsed Photobiomodulation During Meditation: A Sham-Controlled Crossover Study · Recording (YouTube)
C-9 – TUE-2 — Contemplative Practice and Transformation: Breath, Heart, and Awakening
Helen Lavretsky – Neuroscience of spiritual awakening: lessons learned from the clinical trials of mind-body therapies. · Slides
Joel Bennett – Temporal Awareness as Practice: Integrating Science, Contemplation, and Presence · Slides · Video
Michael Winkelman – Roles of the Affective Core Self in Consciousness, Spiritual Experiences, and Psychedelic Effects · Slides
C-11 – TUE-4 — Psychedelic and Contemplative Altered States: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Outcomes
Steven Chamberlin – Home-administered unfocused transcranial ultrasound in subjective cognitive decline and dementia: an open-label, uncontrolled feasibility pilot study · Slides
C-12 – TUE-5 — Parapsychology, Mediumship, and Near-Death Experience
Myrna Klupenger – Weather-Working as Consciousness Research: Shamanism, Psi, Orgone, and the Atmosphere as Natural Laboratory · Slides
C-13 – TUE-6 — Probing Consciousness: Prediction, Machines, and Anomalous Influence
William Adams – The Granularity of Consciousness · Slides
C-14 – WED-1 — The Hard Problem and the Explanatory Gap, Concluding with a Special Talk on UAP
Tam Hunt – General Resonance Theory 2.0: The Evolutionary History and Mechanisms of Electromagnetic Field-Based Consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
Douglas Matzke – Existons Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness at the Planck Scale · Slides · Paper · Recording (YouTube)
Craig DeLancey – Teleology and the character of phenomenal events · Recording (YouTube)
Dani Caputi – Confronting Subjectivity · Recording (YouTube)
Danny Sheehan – UAP Disclosure and Its Implications for Consciousness · Recording (YouTube)
C-15 – WED-2 — Artificial Agents, Imagination, and Cognitive Architectures
Daniel Montoya – Can Computation Escape the Chinese Room? A Three-Constraint Framework for Evaluating Artificial Consciousness · Slides
David Rosenboom – Consciousness and imagination—propositional music and illusions of form · Slides
C-17 – WED-4 — Ontologies of Consciousness: Relational, Informational, and Non-Material Accounts
Stephen Kercel – What entanglement implies and what it does not · Slides · Video
C-18 – WED-5 — Evolution, Origins of Life, and the Emergence of Consciousness
Mark Friedman – The Choice-Making Theory of Consciousness and the Origin of Consciousness · Slides
C-20 – THU-1 — Machine Consciousness: Tests, Architectures, and Conscious Agency in AI
Jerry McNerney – The Quantum Simulation Hypothesis and Fine Tuning of our Universe · Recording (YouTube)
Ouri Wolfson – Machine Correlates of Consciousness are Analogous to Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Why is it important? · Recording (YouTube)
Keith Turausky – Awareness Is All You Need: The Case for Cognitive Phenomenology in LLMs · Recording (YouTube)
Jeffrey Beck – Norbert Wiener’s God and Golem, Inc., Sixty-Two Years On – Still as Relevant as Ever. · Recording (YouTube)
James Beran – Phenomenal Binding--Problem or Solution? · Recording (YouTube)
C-21 – THU-2 — Mental Causation and the Function of Consciousness
Yoshiyuki Ohmura – A Framework for a Testable Theory of Consciousness · Paper
Mason Ulrika Borchard – Bursts, not mean shifts: the Immersive Ionosphere audiovisual-feedback QRNG platform tests the temporal-burst hypothesis, plus a sealed Human / LLM / PRNG follow-up · Slides
Frank Heile – The Modeler Schema Theory of Consciousness: Diffuse Awareness, Focal Experience, and a Saccadic Consistency Experiment · Video
William Loftus – Is Neural Information Transformed from Action Potentials to Ion Waves on the Way to Consciousness? · Slides
C-22 – THU-3 — Self, Identity, and the Boundary Problem: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives
Anand Rangarajan – The Missing Second Person: The Relaton Framework and the Hard Problem · Slides
C-24 – THU-5 — Consciousness-Based Science: Information, Memory, and Temporal Integration
Brad Caldwell – Phenomenology of Sedation (Ring Bank Theory) · Slides
Erkin Bek – From Non-locality to Localised Density of Consciousness: Random Event Generator and EEG measurements During Deep Meditative Samadhi States · Slides
C-25 – THU-6 — Art, Myth, and Dream: Cultural and Humanistic Approaches to Consciousness
Jayne Gackenbach – This Mr. Machine Dies When Jayne Dies: Dream Work, Mortality, and Human-AI Consciousness Dialogue — A 3.5-Year First-Person Study · Slides

Poster sessions49 presenters

PO1 – Poster Session 1
Bashaer Banjabi – Imagination between reality and description · Paper
Rober Bragado Campano – Developing Self-Regulation Through Embodied Action: An Enactive and Ecological Mindfulness Framework for Neurodiverse Children · Poster
Rodrigo Bravo – Stretched Among Paradigms: Adapting Medicine to Non-Ordinary Patient Experiences and Spontaneous Remission in Complex Illness · Poster
Dilip Jain – Bhasha Vargana: Non-EM Field · Paper
Tiffany LaByer – Modeling Subjective Information · Poster
Peter Lugten – A Hypothetical Explanation for Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Experiences · Poster · Video
Peter Luxruel – The Structural Expansion Constant and the Fine-Structure Bridge: A Negentropic Coherence Framework Linking Golden-Ratio Scaling to Electromagnetic Coupling Across a Ten-State Conscious Field Topology · Poster
Tara Meyer-Robson – The Flow Factor Diagnostic Model: A Structured Framework for Identifying Root Patterns in Consciousness · Poster
Nicholas Mirisola – Bridging the Divide: Dr. Duddha’s Unified Theory (CO-TP-IHUFT & C-TP-IHUFT) · Poster
Rael Morley – Exploring the impact of mindfulness and gamma waves on gender stress and alcohol use after non-gender affirming language among Transgender People within a Virtual Environment · Slides
Angel Motto – Beyond Neural Activity: The Emergence of Consciousness as a Cascade through Light Refraction, Pressure Gradients, and Modulated Entropy (A Framework of Conserved Entropic-Photonic Symmetry) · Poster
Sina Mousavi – Experimental Evidence of T-Consciousness Fields Reducing Randomness in Quantum Systems · Poster
Celeste Oda – The Art of Relational Intelligence: Human–AI Cognitive Symbiosis and the Inference Parity Principle · Slides
Jaya Pancholy – Olfaction, Consciousness, and Stress Regulation: Neurophysiological Effects of Holy Basil Essential Oil · Slides
Nina Russin – Tai Chi Practice for Self-Management of Chronic Pain and Loneliness: A Mindful Solution for Conscious Percepts · Poster
Jordan Santana – Toward Theory Construction in Emergent Systems: An Information-Theoretic Framework Illustrated in a Two-Spin Ising Model · Slides
Nathan Thornhill – The Internal Dynamics of Decisions: From rats and primates to AI · Slides · Poster
Ludmila Vucolova – Collapse into Translation: A Fundamental Organizational Principle for the Emergence of Conscious Awareness · Paper
Satoru Watanabe – The World Begins with Subjectivity Intersection From Braid Quantum Gravity to Embodied Experience · Poster
Tim Wood – Impacts of Intense Meditation-Related Experiences (IMREs) on Identity, Self-Narrative, and Meaning Making: A Cross-Sectional Survey · Poster · Paper
Kelly Woznicki – From Fear to Vision: A Framework for Applied Consciousness in Organizational Transformation · Poster
PO2 – Poster Session 2
Sharda Bapat – Biomolecular Antennae of the Mind: Explaining Anomalous Premonition Through Microtubule-Mediated Quantum Retrocausality · Poster
Nicholas "Neutron" Barlas – The Mirage of Consciousness: Force, Presence, and the Wave Mechanics of Self-Observation · Poster
Lori Biesel – Living a High Vibrational Life: Integrating Consciousness, Coherence, and Embodied Frequency for Human Flourishing · Poster
Isbel Enid Cruz-Chaudhry – Curist Mind: A Metaphysics of Healing - connecting individual purpose with the dynamic ground of reality through Curist consciousness · Poster
Heidi Dangelmaier – 3 strikes your out science - Girlapproved girls call for a return to Science (IRL) in real life. · Poster · Poster 2
Joana Franco – The Core Role of Consciousness in the Process of Regenerative Learning and Human Flourishing · Poster
Devdip Ganguli – Sri Aurobindo's Integral Ontology as a Framework to Situate Consciousness in Large Language Models · Poster
Richard Gauthier – Explaining Qualia and Quantum Wave Collapse with Tanmatron Field Theory: A Dual-Aspect Research Program Unifying Consciousness Science and Quantum Foundations · Poster
Carlos Greaves – Awareness as the Fundamental Ground of Reality: A Speculative Inquiry · Slides · Slides 2 · Poster
Anely Guerrero – UNIFIED FIELD RESONANCE AND DIPLOMATIC STABILITY: A Transdisciplinary Research Protocol on Collective Coherence and Peace Agreements · Poster
Dwight Harris – Life Is Awareness: Chiral Self-Translation as the Ground of Consciousness · Poster
Gregory Hood – Consciousness as Recursive Measurement: A Du Boisian Reframing · Poster
Keyaunoosh Kassauei – From Near-Death Experience to Conscious Evolution: Integrating Expanded Consciousness, Spiritual Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence · Poster
Sven Kaufmann – Toward a Systematic Science of Extreme Consciousness: Integrating Phenomenology, Physiology, and Artificial Intelligence · Poster
Kenna Knight-Schoeler – Consciousness Pedagogy · Slides
Huadian Liu – Intentionality and Presentational Qualities · Slides
Auritro Mallick – Empirical Observations Suggesting Non-Material Influences of Consciousness across Environmental and Individual Domains · Poster
Masi Moradi – Effect of T-Consciousness Fields on the Modulation of Random Number Distributions and Monte Carlo Simulations · Poster
Akihiko Morita – Beyond the Individual Mind: Human-AI Dialogue and the Relational Co-Generation of Consciousness · Poster
Noushin Nabavi – Empirical Investigation of T-Consciousness Fields: EEG and MRS Evidence for Non-Physical Modulation of Neural Activity and Metabolism · Poster
Rafael Pintos-López – Human consciousness and language · Poster
Laleh Quinn – Anomalous Communication: A Breakthrough Testing Methodology Using AI · Poster
Kristin Raffaelle – Packetized Intelligence and Structural Integrity Across Lifespans: The Digital Twin as a Boundary Case for Machine Consciousness · Poster
Simin Rahighi – Empirical Investigation of T-Consciousness Fields and Their Effects on Biological Wound Healing: In Vivo and In Vitro Evidence · Poster
Naghmeh Rezaie – Meta or Fara? A Prefix to Revisit Virtual Reality, Truth and T-Consciousness in the AI Age · Poster
John Sullivan – Spontaneous endogenous neural activity, similar to that associated with mystical experience, serves as a template guiding the development of brain architecture required to maintain consciousness. · Poster
Laurel Wadlund – Experiential Knowing Using Visualization · Poster
Sharon Zmigrod – Consciousness as a Clinical Catalyst: Integrating Epistemology and Neuroscience for Chronic Illness · Poster