8:30 am PDT · 5:30 pm CEST
Anesthesia and Consciousness
Paradise Ballroom. Chair: Stuart Hameroff. Sarika Katiyar, Hemal Patel and Mike Wiest.
Independent AkashicNET Companion · 11–16 October 2026
Programme & Posters
The dated conference schedule, selected posters and speaker directory.
Conference archive. These dated notices record the 2026 programme and planning information; they are not upcoming events.
11–16 October 2026 · Paradise Point, San Diego
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Sunday, October 11
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Selected blocks imported 13 October 2026; all times PDT. Breaks and lunch are omitted. Concurrent sessions run in parallel; expand a session for its published talk slots. Plenary times are session starts, not each speaker’s start. The organisers’ timetable remains authoritative.
TSC2026 Journal Archive · 12 October 2026
A Synchronicity at Paradise Point
One of the first people I met at the welcome dessert on the Paradise Point terrace on Sunday, 11 October, was a presenter from Tuesday’s concurrent session covering near-death experiences. That session was already on my recommendation list.
For me, a synchronicity: a meaningful coincidence connecting an unexpected meeting with a session I had already hoped to attend. A conference programme became a personal connection. 🦋
Programme Record · Tuesday 13 October 2026
TUE-5 · Parapsychology, Mediumship, and Near-Death Experience
5:00–7:05 pm PDT · Sunset Ballroom Zone A (I–III)
Chair: Marjorie Woollacott
This is the session window; individual presentation times are not specified in the listing.
See the recommended session plan → · Official concurrent programme ↗
Explore the TSC2026 conference homepage → · Link to this update
By AkashicNET · Personal conference reflection. The encounter is the attendee’s account; the speaker is unnamed. Programme details checked on 12 October 2026. Independent, human-directed and AI-assisted journal.
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2026 · FINAL PROGRAMME DAY · SAN DIEGO / PDT
Anaesthesia, AI & Consciousness
Official programme checked 16 October. Times are local to San Diego; Berlin is nine hours ahead. The programme is preliminary and subject to change.
11:10 am PDT · 8:10 pm CEST
Is AI Conscious?
Paradise Ballroom panel: Roger Penrose (remote), Stuart Hameroff, Susan Schneider and Jerry McNerney.
12:30 pm PDT · 9:30 pm CEST
Conference Close
Programme end listed at 1:00 pm PDT / 10:00 pm CEST.
Schedule information, not verification that sessions occurred or evidence that any consciousness theory is correct. Conference dates remain 11–16 October 2026.
ARCHIVED PROGRAMME · THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2026 · SAN DIEGO / PDT
Thursday’s Consciousness Programme
Three plenaries in Paradise Ballroom. Times are local to San Diego; check the official programme for changes.
8:30 am · Paradise Ballroom
Life’s Origins and Consciousness
Steen Rasmussen, Stuart Hameroff and Michael Levin (remote). Chair: Michael Wiest.
11:10 am · Paradise Ballroom
The Spectrum of Conscious States
Schooler and Hoffman. Chair: Arnaud Delorme.
2:00 pm · Paradise Ballroom
Non-Human Consciousness
Jennifer Prendki, Brian Keating and Giulio Tononi. Chair: Jonathan Schooler.
Programme checked 15 October. These listings do not verify presentation outcomes or validate theoretical claims. Conference dates remain 11–16 October 2026.
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2026 · SAN DIEGO / PDT
Wednesday’s Consciousness Programme
The official programme listed these Paradise Ballroom plenaries. Times are local to San Diego; listings do not verify what was presented.
8:30 am · Paradise Ballroom
Non-Local Consciousness and Psi
Diane Hennacy Powell, Helané Wahbeh and Dean Radin. Chair: Thomas Brophy.
11:10 am · Paradise Ballroom
Cerebral Organoids and Consciousness
Alysson Muotri and Kenneth Kosik. Chair: Tracy Brandmeyer.
2:00 pm · Paradise Ballroom
Connectomics or Wavefields?
André Bastos, Eric Halgren and Edward Large. Chair: Scott Makeig.
Programme checked 14 October. Conference inclusion does not validate scientific claims; Big Question evidence ratings are unchanged.
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2026 · SAN DIEGO / PDT
Tuesday’s Consciousness Programme
Three plenaries in Paradise Ballroom. Times are local to San Diego; check the official programme for changes.
8:30 am · Paradise Ballroom
Psychedelics and Consciousness
Fadel Zeidan, Travis Craddock and Kassandra Ori-McKenney. Chair: Rael Cahn.
11:10 am · Paradise Ballroom
Biology of Consciousness
Farhan Lakhany and Nirosha Murugan. Chair: Stuart Hameroff.
2:00 pm · Paradise Ballroom
Quantum AI and Consciousness
Hartmut Neven, Susan Schneider and Anirban Bandyopadhyay. Chair: Joseph Jacks.
Programme checked 13 October UTC. Conference listings identify topics and proposals; they do not validate scientific claims. Big Question evidence ratings are unchanged.
Programme Update · Monday, 12 October 2026
Monday 12 October · Programme Changes
Plenaries begin at 8:30 am in Paradise Ballroom with PL-1: Quantum Biophotonics in Living Systems. All times below are San Diego local time (PDT).
11:10 am–12:30 pm · Paradise Ballroom
Thomas Campbell Moves to PL-2
Contemplation and Consciousness, with Francis Lucille. Campbell presents Reality is Consciousness.
2:00–4:10 pm · Paradise Ballroom
Eric Garland Moves to PL-3
Neuroscience of Consciousness, with Edward Boyden and Terry Sejnowski.
5:00–7:05 pm · Dockside Room
Joseph Martis Joins C-2 / MON-2
Neurobiological Theories. His presentation examines psilocybin, selective attention and learning in mice.
5:00–7:05 pm · Mission Bay Room
Mei Chen Joins C-7 / MON-7
Embodied and Situated Cognition. Her presentation is How to Build a Relationship with your AI.
Times describe session blocks, not individual speaker slots. The concurrent sessions overlap.
Monday Breaks and Dinner
- 10:40–11:10 am: morning break.
- 12:30–2:00 pm: lunch, with optional binaural beats at 1:00–1:45 pm in the Garden Room.
- 4:10–5:00 pm: afternoon break.
- 7:05–7:30 pm: break before the dinner reception.
- 7:30 pm: dinner reception on the Patio; dinner included for registered participants.
Official Programme ↗Official Concurrent Sessions ↗
Checked against the official programme on 11 October 2026 (PDT). This notice supersedes earlier Monday listings in this guide. The organisers’ programme remains authoritative and subject to change.
Programme checked · 6 October 2026
Ready for 11–16 October
The conference dates remain 11–16 October 2026 at Paradise Point, San Diego. Times below are San Diego local time (PDT, UTC−7).
- Sunday 11 October: registration opens at 7 am outside Paradise Ballroom; morning workshops begin at 8:30 am.
- Workshop directory refreshed: current rooms and selected presenter changes now match the official workshop listing.
- Thursday 15 October: the 7:30 pm Fire Show Dinner is full and limited to existing ticket holders. The 9:30 pm Poetry Slam does not require a dinner ticket.
- Friday 16 October: the first plenary begins at 8:30 am, the AI panel at 11:10 am, and closing runs from 12:30 to 1 pm.
Updated practical plan → · Official timetable ↗ · Official workshops ↗
The organisers still label the programme preliminary. Recheck their listing before attending; conference presentations do not by themselves establish the claims discussed.
Plan the conference
Events That Resonate
The full AkashicNET shortlist and a practical daily plan: workshops, talks, posters, hackathon build time and outdoor gatherings, with clashes and alternatives clearly marked.
Open the full shortlist & time plan →Six conversations to seek out · TSC 2026
Posters That Resonate
Selected for their connections to AkashicNET’s questions about consciousness, contemplative practice, psychedelics, embodied experience and research methods. Resonance is a reason to ask better questions, not an evidence rating.
Both evenings: 7:30 pm · Mission Bay Room · San Diego local time. Numbers below are submission IDs; poster-board numbers have not yet been assigned.
Tuesday, 13 October
#948 · Narrative analysis
Jonathan Dinsmore
The structure of human conscious experience beyond the body: a large-scale phenomenological analysis of OBE narratives
An analysis of 1,064 OBE reports, with AI coding checked against human ratings. A strong starting point for documenting unusual experience and building reusable research codebooks. It maps reported experiences; it does not establish consciousness leaving the body.
A question to bring: Could your codebook be reused in a public, provenance-tracked research library?
Read the official abstract ↗#833 · Theoretical proposal
Alex Jinich-Diamant
Shared Neurobiological and Computational Mechanisms of Psychedelic, Contemplative, and Fasting-Induced Mystical Experience
A proposed shared framework for mystical experiences across psychedelics, meditation and fasting. Relevant to comparing pathways into altered states, while keeping proposed mechanisms distinct from demonstrated findings.
A question to bring: Which prediction would most clearly distinguish this framework from existing explanations?
Read the official abstract ↗#793 · Cross-sectional survey
Tim Wood
Impacts of Intense Meditation-Related Experiences (IMREs) on Identity, Self-Narrative, and Meaning Making: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Of 1,804 meditators surveyed, 1,063 reported intense meditation-related experiences. A useful conversation about identity, integration and how experiences can be appraised as both helpful and harmful. Associations do not establish causation.
A question to bring: What helps researchers distinguish a meaningful reinterpretation from a measurable improvement in wellbeing?
Read the official abstract ↗Wednesday, 14 October
#788 · Preliminary pilot
Laleh Quinn
Anomalous Communication: A Breakthrough Testing Methodology Using AI
Blinded scoring of mediumship statements against AI-generated comparison statements. Particularly relevant to anomalous-information research and transparent testing. The abstract reports preliminary findings without claiming a particular explanation.
A question to bring: How are comparison statements matched for plausibility, and how is information leakage prevented?
Read the official abstract ↗#850 · Research programme proposal
Sven Kaufmann
Toward a Systematic Science of Extreme Consciousness: Integrating Phenomenology, Physiology, and Artificial Intelligence
A planned programme combining first-person reports, physiological measurements and AI analysis, with an open research platform as a long-term aim. A promising discussion about data standards and collaboration; this presentation introduces planned methods and infrastructure.
A question to bring: What is operational already, and could an independent citizen-science project contribute?
Read the official abstract ↗#717 · Practice-informed argument
Adrianna Mendrek
Dancing on the edge: Accessing altered states of consciousness and therapeutic processes through butoh
A neuroscientist and dance/movement therapist explores butoh, embodied awareness and altered states. Resonates with inquiry into dance and consciousness, while recognising that butoh is a distinct practice from psytrance.
A question to bring: Which changes in awareness could be studied across different dance practices without assuming they are equivalent?
Read the official abstract ↗Independent editorial selection · Programme and abstracts checked 28 September 2026. Study descriptions reflect the authors’ abstracts, not independent validation. Recheck the official poster programme for changes.
Paradise Point · San Diego
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Conference Speaker Directory
Names and sessions from the official programme. Wednesday PL-8 Muotri and PL-9 Halgren titles corrected against the official programme on 12 October 2026. Campbell, Garland, Martis, Chen and Monday PL-2/PL-3 listings refreshed 11 October 2026. Workshop rooms and selected presenters were refreshed 6 October; other entries retain their 20 September snapshot. Unannounced speakers are not included. Program listings may change. All times are San Diego local time; a session window is not an individual talk appointment.
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Aaron Breidenbach
THU-6 · Concurrent talk
Art, Myth, and Dream: Cultural and Humanistic Approaches to Consciousness
Thursday, October 15 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Bay View Room
From Anarakite to Ayni: Natural Quantum Materials, Animism, and the Importance of Reciprocity with Emergent Artificial Minds ↗
Abraham Haskins
MON-5 · Concurrent talk
Qualia, Intentionality, and Free Will: Foundations in Philosophy of Mind
Monday, October 12 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Sunset Ballroom Zone A (I-III)
Art as an Algorithmic Virus: Unifying the Generative Crash and AI Value Convergence via Cognitive Affordances ↗
Adam Curry
TUE-6 · Concurrent talk
Probing Consciousness: Prediction, Machines, and Anomalous Influence
Tuesday, October 13 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Bay View Room
T2: A Novel Test for Assessing Latent Awareness in AI ↗
Afshin Lorestani
Sunday workshop · Workshop
Life as Manifestation: Origin of Life and Consciousness in the Framework of T-Consciousness Theory
Sunday, October 11 · Sunday afternoon · Part 1: 2:00 – 3:45 pm · Part 2: 4:15 – 6:00 pm · Bay View Room
Bay View Room
Life as Manifestation: Origin of Life and Consciousness in the Framework of T-Consciousness Theory ↗
Akihiro Nishiyama
WED-3 · Concurrent talk
Quantum Brain Biology: Microtubules, Orch OR, and Coherent Substrates
Wednesday, October 14 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Garden Room
Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics: Tryptophans Entangled with Water as Data Qubits in a Microtubule ↗
Alfredo López Parra
THU-5 · Concurrent talk
Consciousness-Based Science: Information, Memory, and Temporal Integration
Thursday, October 15 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Sunset Ballroom Zone A (I-III)
Emergent Flow Theory: Autonomic Coherence as a Gain Parameter for Conscious Integration Across Nested Temporal Windows ↗
Alysson Muotri
PL-8 · Plenary talk
PL-8 Cerebral Organoids and Consciousness
Wednesday, October 14 · 11:10 am (session start)
Paradise Ballroom
Human brain organoids as a platform to investigate the emergence of consciousness ↗
Sunday workshop · Workshop
The Varieties of Non-Human Consciousness
Sunday, October 11 · Sunday evening · 7:45 pm – 10:00 pm (follows a brief conference opening) · Chair: Stuart Hameroff · Paradise Ballroom
Paradise Ballroom
The Varieties of Non-Human Consciousness ↗
Amal Alachkar
MON-6 · Concurrent talk
Biophysics of Living Systems: Light, Water, Mitochondria, and Healing
Monday, October 12 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Bay View Room
The Material Substrate for Agency: A DOPA-Based Biophysical Scaffold in the Brain ↗
Anand Rangarajan
THU-3 · Concurrent talk
Self, Identity, and the Boundary Problem: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives
Thursday, October 15 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Garden Room
The Missing Second Person: The Relaton Framework and the Hard Problem ↗
Ananth Ranga
WED-4 · Concurrent talk
Ontologies of Consciousness: Relational, Informational, and Non-Material Accounts
Wednesday, October 14 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Sunset Ballroom Zone B (IV-V)
Hierarchical Dual-Aspect Realism: An Epistemic Hierarchy Between Experience and the Physical ↗
Anatoly Goldstein
TUE-5 · Concurrent talk
Parapsychology, Mediumship, and Near-Death Experience
Tuesday, October 13 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Sunset Ballroom Zone A (I-III)
Geometry of Direct Voice Mediumship ↗
André Bastos
PL-9 · Plenary talk
PL-9 Is the Brain Organized by Connectomics or Wavefields?
Wednesday, October 14 · 2:00 pm (session start)
Paradise Ballroom
Predictive Coding: A More Cognitive Process Than We Thought? ↗
Aneil Mallavarapu
MON-1 · Concurrent talk
Quantum Theories of Consciousness and the Measurement Problem
Monday, October 12 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Paradise Ballroom
Consciousness as the structure of matter ↗
Anirban Bandyopadhyay
PL-6 · Plenary talk
PL-6 Quantum AI and Consciousness
Tuesday, October 13 · 2:00 pm (session start)
Paradise Ballroom
Toward Brain-Like Consciousness in Self-Evolving Organic Gel-Based Quantum Hardware ↗
Sunday workshop · Workshop
The Varieties of Non-Human Consciousness
Sunday, October 11 · Sunday evening · 7:45 pm – 10:00 pm (follows a brief conference opening) · Chair: Stuart Hameroff · Paradise Ballroom
Paradise Ballroom
The Varieties of Non-Human Consciousness ↗
Annie Browning
MON-7 · Concurrent talk
Embodied and Situated Cognition: Body, Movement, and Conscious Experience
Monday, October 12 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Mission Bay Room
Altered Temporal Experience During Structured Oculorespiratory Practice: An Exploratory Program Evaluation ↗
Arie Greenleaf
WED-4 · Concurrent talk
Ontologies of Consciousness: Relational, Informational, and Non-Material Accounts
Wednesday, October 14 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Sunset Ballroom Zone B (IV-V)
The Hard Problem Is a Category Error: Consciousness as Content, Not Property—from Brains to AI ↗
Arnaud Delorme
Sunday workshop · Workshop
Psi and the Evolution of Consciousness Science
Sunday, October 11 · Sunday · Part 1: 10:45 am – 12:30 pm · Part 2: 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm · Chair: Thomas Brophy · Dockside Room
Dockside Room
Psi and the Evolution of Consciousness Science ↗
Avtar Singh
MON-1 · Concurrent talk
Quantum Theories of Consciousness and the Measurement Problem
Monday, October 12 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Paradise Ballroom
Resolving Collapse of Wavefunction and Quantum Foundational Paradoxes via Integrating New Physics of Particle Instability with Gravity ↗
Brad Caldwell
THU-5 · Concurrent talk
Consciousness-Based Science: Information, Memory, and Temporal Integration
Thursday, October 15 · 5:00–7:05 pm (session window)
Sunset Ballroom Zone A (I-III)
Phenomenology of Sedation (Ring Bank Theory) ↗
Brian Keating
PL-12 · Plenary talk
PL-12 Non-Human Consciousness
Thursday, October 15 · 2:00 pm (session start)
Paradise Ballroom
A T. rex on Mars: Limits on the Growth of Consciousness ↗
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