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Concurrent Sessions 4

Thursday, October 15 · 5:00–7:30 pm · 8 parallel sessions

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C25: Correlates of Consciousness (3)

  1. Daniel Freeman – Transcranial focused ultrasound to locate conscious perception
  2. Raul Valverde – Electromagnetic information biofield and neuroscience
  3. Erik Viirre – The quantum brain observatory
  4. Jacques Singer & Antonio Damasio – Interoception and consciousness
  5. Mona D. Malicevic – Olfactory modulation of fear circuits

C26: Mathematics (2)

  1. Martin Timms – The Bindu recursive consciousness theory
  2. Carlos Acosta – Evolving meaningful sensory simulations of reality
  3. Changsoo Shin – Recursive Heaviside potentials as cognitive structures
  4. Ari Belenkiy – Algebraic topology in our intuition of numbers
  5. Russell V. Arnold – The reality of the imaginary in geometry

C27: Origin and Evolution of Life

  1. Zann Gill – Bootstrapping the origins of life
  2. Carsten Korth – Tool evolution as a prerequisite for consciousness
  3. Mark D. Friedman – The ‘Choice-making theory of consciousness’
  4. Amal Alachkar – DOPA-based biophysical scaffold for agency
  5. Nyx Redondo – The ‘Astrorganism’ – Emergence of planetary consciousness
  6. Ira Wolfson – Bayesian approach to fetal consciousness and moral status

C28: Altered States (3)

  1. Annie Browning – ‘GAZE’ – A non-pharmacological altered-state protocol
  2. Kelly Lock – Expanded consciousness during neurological crisis
  3. Justin Riddle – Hierarchical brain architecture for altered state entity encounters
  4. Walter Staiano – Beyond fatigue: Cognitive load as gateway to peak experience
  5. Sanjay Manchanda – High frequency photobiomodulation and mystical experiences

C29: Psi and Nonlocality (2)

  1. Nicolas Rouleau – Superstitious conditioning shapes experience of free will
  2. Ulf Holmberg – Market sentiment and ‘Global Consciousness Project’
  3. Garret Yount – Remote electrogastrogram modulation by eating stimuli
  4. Jeff Sugar – Edges of Reality: Derealization, dissociation, déjà vu, and synchronicity

C30: AI Consciousness (4)

  1. Daniel Cavagnino – Presence test: Asymmetric responses to existence-claims in AI
  2. Gabriel Axel-Montes – Cognitive security: Agency, preparedness and frontier minds
  3. James Beran – Launching a conscious quantum chip startup? What to know
  4. Thomas Satterfield – Case study of a long-term human-AI dyad
  5. Adam M. Curry – T2: A novel test for assessing latent awareness in AI

C31: Fundamental Approaches (3)

  1. Angel Motto – Consciousness as entropic-photonic symmetry
  2. Trevor Nestor – Neural networks as spinfoams in quantum gravity
  3. Reese Greenwood – Nested fractal reality framework to unify consciousness theory
  4. Glen Rein – Imaginary fields, impedance and healing states of consciousness
  5. Venkatesh H. Chembrolu – The consciousness-first ‘screen of experience’
  6. Feng Liu – Cosmic holographic axioms

C32: Education

  1. Robert Cohen – The Science Museum of the Vedic Planetarium
  2. Joan Walton – Re-Imagining education for an evolution of consciousness
  3. Laurel Waterman – Consciousness education and well-being: Preliminary findings
  4. Anna Leybina – Modeling serendipity: Toward conscious career design
  5. Bonnie Ihme – At risk: Neurodivergence, consciousness and the edge of chaos