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01: Six Disciplines, One Open Question. 02: What Would Change Our Minds?
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About the topic scan · 30 September 2026
All 38 existing plenary and panel entries, representing 36 distinct speakers. Targeted public-topic search, not an exhaustive audit of N2N, concurrent talks or the full repository.
Connections are editorial inferences from the listed talk topic and inspected public AkashicNET content, N2N posts or public search extracts. A direct topic connection means close subject overlap, not agreement or endorsement. Broader connections supply a question rather than evidence for the talk.
Official programme rechecked. Existing abstract-access notes remain visible for each talk. N2N search coverage is uneven; where a specific match was unavailable, the broader connection is labelled. The large historical Reddit index returned no usable text, so no full-archive scan is claimed.
Community posts, site articles and their mirrors are reading leads, not independent replications. No statistical correlation was calculated. Questions are original AI-assisted editorial prompts.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of microtubule optics across biological scales. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What measurement would show that a tubulin optical effect changes neural information processing at physiological conditions, beyond simply showing that tubulin absorbs and emits light?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of photons, energy and neuronal function. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Could optical measurements and mitochondrial readouts in the same preparation reveal whether microtubule light interactions influence neuronal activity or mainly track metabolic state?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-1-03 · Plenary talk
Roumiana Tsenkova
Water spectroscopy and anaesthesia
Broader connection
Water as an active molecular environment
The water article motivates measuring the surrounding medium. It studies different chemistry, so this is a methodological comparison with aquaphotomics.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of water as an active molecular environment. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which water-spectrum change would specifically predict an anaesthetic transition after controlling temperature, hydration and drug concentration, and could it predict recovery as well as induction?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of nondual experience and its interpretation. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
When someone reports awareness without a separate self, which parts can be described without interpretation, and how would you investigate the additional claim that awareness is fundamental?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of from neural correlation to causal tests. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which bioengineering tool could perturb a proposed mechanism while preserving enough perception and reporting to test whether it changes conscious content itself?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of artificial models and different cognitive capacities. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which NeuroAI task would expose a meaningful difference between matching human behaviour and reproducing the brain mechanism that supports that behaviour?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-3-03 · Plenary talk
Tracy Brandmeyer
Genes, circuits and precision neuroscience
Broader connection
Individual variation without genetic determinism
N2N’s Wahbeh interview raises genetic and physiological questions. The IONS notebook illustrates the need to distinguish reported traits, performance and explanations.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of individual variation without genetic determinism. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
How would you design a study that separates genetic contributions to a reported conscious experience from differences in attention, prior practice, environment and reporting style?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of mindfulness, psychedelics and lasting change. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What study design could tell whether mindfulness adds a lasting benefit to psychedelic-assisted therapy beyond expectancy, prior meditation experience and the therapy itself?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of spin dynamics and competing quantum proposals. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which spin-sensitive intervention would distinguish a cytoskeletal quantum contribution from ordinary chemical or network effects, and what conscious-state measure would you pair with it?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of plasticity: receptor signalling and cytoskeleton. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What experiment would distinguish a microtubule change that is necessary for psychoplastogen-induced plasticity from one that follows receptor and BDNF–TrkB signalling?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-5 Biology of Consciousness
Tuesday, October 13 · 11:10 am (session start) · Paradise Ballroom Chair: Stuart Hameroff
PL-5-01 · Plenary talk
Farhan Lakhany
A philosophical critique of the quantum pleasure principle
Direct conceptual connection
When does a goal imply a felt value?
Levin’s review separates adaptive behaviour from experience; the Living Spectrum discussion separates capacities from claims about a conscious subject. This meets Lakhany’s critique of the quantum pleasure principle.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your critique connects with a question in our Levin review: when does goal-directed behaviour justify an inference about felt experience?
One Question To Bring
Would a non-quantum account that gives felt pleasure a causal role face the same agency problem, and what would an adequate account need to explain?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-5-02 · Plenary talk
Nirosha Murugan
Patterned energy and biological information
Direct topic connection
Magnetic-field patterns, metabolism and conscious states
Life on Magnet was prompted by Murugan’s magnetic-field post and examines a static-field mouse study. Her conference abstract discusses patterned fields and light. N2N’s magnetic-bacteria article concerns a separate intervention, giving us three approaches to compare carefully.
Dr Murugan, your post on magnetic fields prompted our AkashicNET article, “Life on Magnet?” It made me wonder how the static-field findings relate to the patterned fields in your talk. May I ask about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What comparison between static and patterned magnetic fields would isolate the effect of temporal pattern on mitochondrial function and neural activity, and what extra evidence would connect that to conscious experience?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-6 Quantum AI and Consciousness
Tuesday, October 13 · 2:00 pm (session start) · Paradise Ballroom Chair: Joseph Jacks
PL-6-01 · Plenary talk
Hartmut Neven
Anaesthetic isotopes and brain–quantum coupling
Direct topic connection
Anaesthetic isotope effects and a coupling mechanism
The multiscale guide asks how a molecular effect reaches a conscious-state endpoint; N2N’s quantum-mind comparison helps distinguish different quantum claims.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of anaesthetic isotope effects and a coupling mechanism. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
If an anaesthetic isotope effect replicates, what further measurement would identify the brain–quantum-computer coupling mechanism rather than only a change in drug sensitivity?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of aI capabilities and possible sentience. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which evidence would most change your confidence that an AI has experience, after controlling for training that rewards human-like claims about feelings?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of adaptive material hardware and experience. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What would your gel hardware need to demonstrate beyond adaptive memory and efficient computation before you would infer consciousness, and which matched classical system would be the fairest comparison?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-7 Non-Local Consciousness and “Psi”
Wednesday, October 14 · 8:30 am (session start) · Paradise Ballroom Chair: Thomas Brophy
PL-7-01 · Plenary talk
Diane Hennacy Powell
Altered access and unusual communication
Broader connection
Communication access and information verification
N2N’s unresponsiveness brief cautions against equating expression with awareness. AkashicPSI separately asks how claims of inaccessible information can be tested.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of communication access and information verification. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
How could a protocol respect each participant’s communication needs while independently controlling facilitator knowledge, sensory cues and target access?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of convergence across independent sources. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
When you combine evidence across psi domains, how do you account for shared participants, investigators and reporting biases so that apparent convergence reflects genuinely independent information?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of mind–matter experiments and discriminating predictions. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What preregistered result would distinguish consciousness-related collapse from instrument drift, analysis flexibility and other quantum interpretations, and what null result would lower your confidence?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of organoid activity and welfare uncertainty. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which combination of perturbation responses, organisation and development would justify greater concern about organoid experience, while avoiding treating an EEG resemblance as sufficient evidence?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of xenon responses across levels. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
How would you tell whether xenon changes an organoid’s general excitability or a candidate consciousness-related property, and which comparison with intact systems would be informative?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of prediction, task demands and conscious access. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What task would separate a top-down prediction effect from attention or task demands, and show whether that effect changes conscious perception rather than only the response?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of classical wave dynamics and quantum analogies. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which prediction of your proposed classical mechanism could be tested against a connectome-based model, and which quantum-like features are mathematical analogies rather than quantum physical effects?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-9-03 · Plenary talk
Edward Large
Music, resonance and embodied dynamics
Direct topic connection
Music, movement and measurable resonance
RHYTHM000 explores movement, music and reflection. Large’s neural-resonance account supplies a way to ask which parts can become testable rather than metaphorical.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of music, movement and measurable resonance. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
In a dance setting, what measurement would separate neural resonance with the music from movement artefacts, familiarity and shared arousal, and test its relationship to reported absorption?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of adaptive life and the emergence of sentience. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
At what point in a minimal living system would your account predict sentience, and what observation would distinguish that prediction from adaptive self-maintenance alone?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-10-02 · Plenary talk
Stuart Hameroff
Time crystals and proposed origins of consciousness
Direct topic connection
Time crystals: physical definition and biological bridge
The exploration guide and N2N diamond post provide physics context. A laboratory time-crystal example cannot establish an extraterrestrial or biological origin of consciousness.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of time crystals: physical definition and biological bridge. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What measurable signature would identify the proposed time-crystal organisation in a plausible prebiotic system and distinguish it from an ordinary chemical oscillator?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of bioelectric organisation and unfamiliar minds. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Could we specify a prediction for an unfamiliar biological construct that your pattern-space account makes before observation, and compare it with a matched physical-dynamics model?
Official timetable inspected. Individual abstract retrieval was unavailable; this editorial prompt uses the listed topic, not an inspected abstract.
PL-11 The Spectrum of Conscious States
Thursday, October 15 · 11:10 am (session start) · Paradise Ballroom Chair: Arnaud Delorme
PL-11-01 · Plenary talk
Jonathan Schooler
Nested minds and temporal experience
Direct connection to speaker’s work
Spontaneous thought and experienced time
BQ002 cites Smallwood and Schooler on mind-wandering; the N2N thought post supplies a first-person question about thoughts arriving and disappearing. The bridge to this talk’s nested-minds model is exploratory.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of spontaneous thought and experienced time. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
How would the nested-minds account predict changes in experienced time during mind-wandering, beyond what attention, memory and arousal already predict?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of recursive trace logic and empirical constraints. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What observable result would recursive trace logic predict differently from a brain-based account of perception, and how would you decide in advance whether that test had failed?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of intelligence, embodiment and energy costs. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which physical constraint on intelligence gives a testable prediction across biological and artificial systems, and does that prediction require any assumption about subjective experience?
Official timetable inspected. Individual abstract retrieval was unavailable; this editorial prompt uses the listed topic, not an inspected abstract.
PL-12-02 · Plenary talk
Brian Keating
Cosmic constraints on consciousness
Broader connection
Physical limits and possible conscious systems
N2N’s substrate discussion opens the question of unfamiliar systems; AkashicNET’s neural-systems map keeps functional capacity separate from experience.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of physical limits and possible conscious systems. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which parts of your proposed growth limit follow from energy and information constraints, and which depend on an additional assumption about what can be conscious?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of causal organisation versus behavioural equivalence. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
How would IIT assess two artificial systems with the same behaviour but different physical causal organisation, and what feasible measurement could challenge that assessment?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of high-frequency signals and awareness endpoints. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Can the MHz signature predict connected awareness independently of immobility and drug concentration, with simultaneous controls for muscle activity and operating-room interference?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-13-02 · Plenary talk
Hemal Patel
Caveolae, mitochondria and anaesthesia
Direct topic connection
Membranes, mitochondria and cytoskeletal coupling
N2N’s Picard analysis and AkashicNET’s multiscale guide connect energetics with intracellular organisation, providing context for the caveolar proposal.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of membranes, mitochondria and cytoskeletal coupling. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which targeted intervention could separate a caveolar effect on anaesthesia from general changes in mitochondrial energy supply, membrane properties or cell health?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-13-03 · Plenary talk
Mike Wiest
Orch OR and quantum active inference
Direct topic connection
Quantum and classical active inference
BQ002 considers prediction and neural construction; N2N’s flexible-perception brief gives context for comparing an explicitly quantum account with classical models.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of quantum and classical active inference. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What outcome would your quantum active-inference account predict that a well-specified classical active-inference model would not, and could both be tested on the same dataset?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of conscious understanding and computation. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What empirical result would connect a limit of computation to conscious understanding, rather than only demonstrating that a particular algorithm cannot solve a task?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of a proposed substrate for conscious AI. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
If an artificial system reproduced the microtubule processes you consider essential, what additional test would be needed before calling it conscious?
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of precaution without rewarding claims of sentience. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
What practical threshold should trigger precautionary treatment of an AI, and how could it remain robust when a system is trained to imitate distress or self-awareness?
Official abstract inspected; questions are AkashicNET editorial prompts, not the speaker’s claims.
PL-14-04 · Plenary talk
Jerry McNerney
AI consciousness panel · McNerney
Broader connection
Governance under uncertainty
BQ010 asks how technology affects agency; N2N’s Living Spectrum discussion includes social and reflective capacities. This is an ethical connection rather than a model of machine consciousness.
Hello, I’m developing AkashicNET and curating NeuronsToNirvana. Your talk connects with our exploration of governance under uncertainty. May I ask a question about that connection?
One Question To Bring
Which safeguards for people and potentially sentient systems should policy adopt now, and what new evidence should trigger a review of those safeguards?
Open inquiry into neural construction, spontaneous thought and interpretation; includes Schooler in its reading list. Public page source inspected on 30 September 2026.
The public neural-systems connection distinguishes decoding, organoid activity and subjective experience. Public page source inspected on 30 September 2026.
Community analysis of an interview; consciousness-generating interpretations remain hypotheses. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community taxonomy; a broad topic lead, not population-level evidence. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Archive of an interview about bioelectricity and biological organisation. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community discussion of Hoffman’s proposed framework; not empirical confirmation. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Comparison of quantum-mind proposals; hypothesis and interpretation. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community research brief concerning cognitive control of perception. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community brief distinguishing neural computation from awareness. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Interview archive; a lead on individual variation, not evidence that a genetic marker verifies psi. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Post includes a study abstract about cross-sectional associations; causation is not established by that design. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Archive of a 2023 study abstract; a molecular-mechanism lead, not a clinical recommendation. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Physics news archive; not evidence of biological time crystals or consciousness. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community brief discussing a theoretical possibility; does not establish sentience in a system. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community brief about the limits of behavioural measures; not evidence of telepathy. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Companion to the AkashicNET reflection aid; the two versions are not independent evidence. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Companion exploratory framework; the two versions are not independent evidence. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Community study reading; bacterial feeding differs from an external magnetic-field intervention. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
Reflective community question, not experimental data. Public post text or search extract inspected on 30 September 2026; linked papers were not all reappraised for this map.
