Program Details

Sunday, October 11 — Workshops & Opening Plenary

7:00 am

Registration opens — Foyer, outside the Paradise Ballroom

Badge pick-up; the desk stays open through the day

8:30 am

Morning Workshops (4 parallel) · 8:30 – 10:15 am

Quantum Biology and the Brain (Part 1) — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

OBEs, Past Life Memories and Altered States of Consciousness (Part 1) — Bay View Room

MAHP — Mindful Awareness Healing Practice — Dockside Room

Consciousness, Psychedelics, and Healing (Part 1) — Garden Room

10:15 am

Break

10:45 am

Morning Workshops, continued (4 parallel) · 10:45 am – 12:30 pm

Quantum Biology and the Brain (Part 2) — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

OBEs, Past Life Memories and Altered States of Consciousness (Part 2) — Bay View Room

Psi and the Evolution of Consciousness Science (Part 1) — Dockside Room

Consciousness, Psychedelics, and Healing (Part 2) — Garden Room

12:30 pm

Lunch break (food trucks on site)

2:00 pm

Afternoon Workshops (4 parallel) · 2:00 – 3:45 pm

Brain Electromagnetic Field Generation, Computation and Information Processing — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Psi and the Evolution of Consciousness Science (Part 2) — Dockside Room

Integrated Information Theory: History, Evidence, and AI — Garden Room

Life as Manifestation (Part 1) — Bay View Room

3:45 pm

Break

4:15 pm

Late Afternoon Workshops (4 parallel) · 4:15 – 6:00 pm

From Quantum Biology to Quantum Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Sound, Consciousness and Healing — Garden Room

The MindSwan Prize: The Search for Extraocular Perception — Dockside Room

Life as Manifestation (Part 2) — Bay View Room

6:00 pm

Dinner break · registration

Food trucks on site plus nearby restaurants · light dessert and cash bar 7:00 pm, Paradise Terrace

7:45 pm

Opening

Brief welcome, followed by the featured workshop

Featured Workshop
The Varieties of Non-Human Consciousness →

Chair: Stuart Hameroff · until 10:00 pm · Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Monday, October 12

7:00 am

Experiential Sessions

TennisCentric: An Experiential Study of Flow and Consciousness, 7:00–7:45 am, tennis courts (meet 6:30 am, Paradise Lobby) — details

MAHP — Mindful Awareness Healing Practice, 7:00–8:00 am, Garden Room — details

8:30 am

PL-1 Quantum Biophotonics in Living Systems — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Travis Craddock

Jack Tuszynski, Lea Gassab, Roumiana Tsenkova

8:30 am · 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

9:10 am · Gassab: Quantum Biophotonics of Microtubules: Light, Energy, and Neural Function

9:50 am · Tsenkova: Aquaphotomics for Consciousness: Linking Microtubules, Anesthesia, and Water Spectral Dynamics

10:30 am · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

10:40 am

Break

11:10 am

PL-2 Contemplation and Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Arnaud Delorme

Francis Lucille, Thomas Campbell

11:10 am · Lucille: Consciousness Q/A

11:50 am · Campbell: Reality is Consciousness

12:30 pm

Lunch (food trucks on site)

Experiential: Binaural Beats, 1–1:45 PM, Garden Room — details

2:00 pm

PL-3 Neuroscience of Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Arnaud Delorme

Edward Boyden, Terry Sejnowski, Eric Garland

2:00 pm · Boyden: How can bioengineers contribute to the study of consciousness?

2:40 pm · Sejnowski: Cortical Mechanisms Underlying Consciousness

3:20 pm · Garland: Self‑Transcendence and the Brain: How Meditative‑ and Psychedelic Nondual States Transform Consciousness to Reduce Suffering

4:00 pm · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

4:10 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 1 (7 parallel) →

MON-1 in the Paradise Ballroom is streamed · Zoom link

7:05 pm

Break

7:30 pm

Dinner reception — Patio

Open to all registered participants, dinner included · one free drink with the red ticket inside your conference mug · cash bar · weather permitting, followed by a bonfire on the beach

Tuesday, October 13

7:00 am

Experiential Sessions

TennisCentric: An Experiential Study of Flow and Consciousness, 7:00–7:45 am, tennis courts (meet 6:30 am, Paradise Lobby) — details

MAHP — Mindful Awareness Healing Practice, 7:00–8:00 am, Garden Room — details

8:30 am

PL-4 Psychedelics and Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Rael Cahn

Fadel Zeidan, Travis Craddock, Kassandra Ori-McKenney

8:30 am · Zeidan: Beyond the Trip: A Neurobiological Framework for Integrating Mindfulness and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

9:10 am · Craddock: Quantum Spin Dynamics in the Cytoskeleton: Implications for the Quantum Brain

9:50 am · Ori-McKenney: Psychoplastogens and the Microtubule Cytoskeleton: Linking Microtubule Dynamics to Cellular and Neuronal Plasticity

10:30 am · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

10:40 am

Break

11:10 am

PL-5 Biology of Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Stuart Hameroff

Farhan Lakhany, Nirosha Murugan

11:10 am · Lakhany: Evaluating the Quantum Pleasure Principle

11:50 am · Murugan: Consciousness as a Biophysical Informational Landscape Shaped by Patterned Energy Dynamics

12:30 pm

Lunch (food trucks on site)

Experiential: Binaural Beats, 1–1:45 PM, Garden Room — details

2:00 pm

PL-6 Quantum AI and Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Joseph Jacks

Hartmut Neven, Susan Schneider, Anirban Bandyopadhyay

2:00 pm · Neven: Towards a Brain-Quantum Computer Interface: Identifying Potential Coupling Mechanisms via Anesthetic Isotope Effects

2:40 pm · Schneider: Which AIs Might be Conscious, and Why it Matters

3:20 pm · Bandyopadhyay: Toward Brain-Like Consciousness in Self-Evolving Organic Gel-Based Quantum Hardware

4:00 pm · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

4:10 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 2 (6 parallel) →

TUE-1 in the Paradise Ballroom is streamed · Zoom link

7:05 pm

Break

Snacks and food trucks on site

7:30 pm

Poster Session 1 →

Mission Bay Room

Light reception · cash bar

Wednesday, October 14

7:00 am

Experiential Sessions

TennisCentric: An Experiential Study of Flow and Consciousness, 7:00–7:45 am, tennis courts (meet 6:30 am, Paradise Lobby) — details

MAHP — Mindful Awareness Healing Practice, 7:00–8:00 am, Garden Room — details

8:30 am

PL-7 Non-Local Consciousness and “Psi” — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Thomas Brophy

Diane Hennacy Powell, Helané Wahbeh, Dean Radin

8:30 am · Hennacy: Unfiltered Consciousness: Insights from Individuals with Altered Access

9:10 am · Wahbeh: If Consciousness Were Non-Local: A Convergence Argument from Psi Research

9:50 am · Radin: Fringe Physics: Experimental Tests of the Consciousness–Collapse Hypothesis

10:30 am · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

10:40 am

Break

11:10 am

PL-8 Cerebral Organoids and Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Tracy Brandmeyer

Alysson Muotri, Kenneth Kosik

11:10 am · Muotri: Human brain organoids as a platform to investigate the emergence of consciousness

11:50 am · Kosik: Effects of Natural Xenon on Human Brain Organoids and Cultured Neurons

12:30 pm

Lunch (food trucks on site)

Experiential: Binaural Beats, 1–1:45 PM, Garden Room — details

2:00 pm

PL-9 Is the Brain Organized by Connectomics or Wavefields? — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Scott Makeig

André Bastos, Eric Halgren, Edward Large

2:00 pm · Bastos: Predictive Coding: A More Cognitive Process Than We Thought?

2:40 pm · Halgren: The Human Brain may use the Classical Equivalent of Quantum Computing to Construct Access Consciousness

3:20 pm · Large: Musical Neurodynamics – Resonance, Stability, and the Embodied Mind

4:00 pm · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

4:10 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 3 (6 parallel) →

WED-1 in the Paradise Ballroom is streamed · Zoom link

7:05 pm

Break

Snacks and food trucks on site

7:30 pm

Poster Session 2 →

Mission Bay Room

Light reception · cash bar

9:30 pm

Collective Consciousness Concert — Paradise Ballroom

Featuring Johnny and the Dendrites

Thursday, October 15

7:00 am

Experiential Sessions

TennisCentric: An Experiential Study of Flow and Consciousness, 7:00–7:45 am, tennis courts (meet 6:30 am, Paradise Lobby) — details

MAHP — Mindful Awareness Healing Practice, 7:00–8:00 am, Garden Room — details

Quest for Presence — Synchronistic Morning Sessions, 7:00–8:00 am, Dockside Room — details

Creating a Transpersonal Field of Love (Carol Richardson), 7:30–7:50 am, Paradise Terrace lawn — details

8:30 am

PL-10 Origins of Life and Consciousness — Which Came First? — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Michael Wiest

Steen Rasmussen, Stuart Hameroff, Michael Levin (Remote)

8:30 am · Rasmussen: Emergence of life and sentience

9:10 am · Hameroff: Are extraterrestrial polyatomic time crystals the origin of life and biological consciousness?

9:50 am · Levin: Diverse intelligence in unconventional embodiments: origins and implications

10:30 am · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

10:40 am

Break

11:10 am

PL-11 The Spectrum of Conscious States — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Arnaud Delorme

Schooler, Hoffman

11:10 am · Schooler: The Kite of Consciousness: How Time Moves Through Nested Minds

11:50 am · Hoffman: The Recursive Trace Logic of Observers and Agents

12:30 pm

Lunch (food trucks on site)

Experiential: Binaural Beats, 1–1:45 PM, Garden Room — details

2:00 pm

PL-12 Non-Human Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Jonathan Schooler

Jennifer Prendki, Brian Keating, Giulio Tononi

2:00 pm · Prendki: The Physics of Intelligence

2:40 pm · Keating: A T. rex on Mars: Limits on the Growth of Consciousness

3:20 pm · Tononi: No consciousness for AI

4:00 pm · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

4:10 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 4 (7 parallel) →

THU-1 in the Paradise Ballroom is streamed · Zoom link

7:05 pm

Break

Food trucks on site; the Fire Show Dinner (7:30 pm) is for ticket holders

7:30 pm

Fire Show Dinner — Paradise Terrace

By Skyfire Arts · A few seats released (reservation required)

9:30 pm

Poetry Slam — Paradise Ballroom

You do not have to attend the dinner in order to participate in the Poetry Slam.

Friday, October 16

7:00 am

Experiential Sessions

TennisCentric: An Experiential Study of Flow and Consciousness, 7:00–7:45 am, tennis courts (meet 6:30 am, Paradise Lobby) — details

MAHP — Mindful Awareness Healing Practice, 7:00–8:00 am, Garden Room — details

Quest for Presence — Synchronistic Morning Sessions, 7:00–8:00 am, Dockside Room — details

8:30 am

PL-13 Anesthesia and Consciousness — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Chair: Stuart Hameroff

Sarika Katiyar, Hemal Patel, Mike Wiest

8:30 am · Katiyar: Brain Megahertz Signatures of Anaesthetic-Induced Loss of Consciousness in the Surgical Operating Room

9:10 am · Patel: The Caveolar Consciousness Hypothesis: How Lipids, Mitochondria, and the Cytoskeleton Shape Anesthesia

9:50 am · Wiest: Orchestrated objective reduction is quantum active inference

10:30 am · Discussion (10 min, if time allows)

10:40 am

Break

11:10 am

PL-14 Is AI Conscious? (Panel) — Paradise Ballroom · Zoom link

Roger Penrose (Remote), Stuart Hameroff, Susan Schneider, Jerry McNerney

Penrose: Is AI Conscious?

Hameroff: Is AI Conscious?

Schneider: Is AI Conscious?

McNerney: Is AI Conscious?

12:30 pm

Conference Close: The Future of Consciousness

With the Hackathon project brief presentations

1:00 pm

End of conference

Concurrent & Poster Sessions

Concurrent talks (MON–THU, 5:00–7:05 pm) and posters (Tuesday & Wednesday evenings) are listed on their own pages:

View Concurrent Presentations →  ·  View Poster Sessions →

Exhibitors

Ant Neuro · Cosmointel · Academy for the Advancement of Post Materialist Sciences · CUSAC-my big toe · Institute of Noetic Sciences · Journal of Consciousness Studies · New Paradigm Institute