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Stuart Hameroff

STUART HAMEROFF
Stuart Hameroff  Co-Founder, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies; Co-Chair, The Science of Consciousness; Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, U of Arizona, Stuart Hameroff MD is a clinical anesthesiologist and researcher on how the brain produces consciousness, and how anesthetics act to erase it. In medical school in the early 1970s, Hameroff became interested in consciousness, and in protein structures called microtubules inside brain neurons which he came to believe processed information supporting consciousness. In the mid- 1990s he teamed with Sir Roger Penrose to develop the controversial ‘Orch OR’ theory in which consciousness derives from “orchestrated” (“Orch”) microtubule quantum vibrations linked to processes in spacetime geometry, the fine scale structure of the universe, leading to “Penrose objective reduction” (“OR”, hence “Orch OR”). And he has further proposed the ‘microtubule quantum vibration’ theory of anesthetic action. Hameroff organizes the well-known conference series ‘The Science of Consciousness’, has written or edited 5 books and over a hundred scientific articles, and appeared in films and various TV shows about consciousness. With University of Arizona colleagues Jay Sanguinetti, John JB Allen and Shinzen Young, Hameroff is developing transcranial ultrasound (‘TUS’) for treatment of mental and cognitive dysfunction (TUS may resonate endogenous megahertz vibrations in brain microtubules). Penrose- Hameroff Orch OR is one of a group of major theories of consciousness in the Templeton World Charity Foundation project  ‘Accelerating Research on Consciousness’ and is currently being tested experimentally. (Jan 2024 New Scientist Feature Cover on Quantum Consciousness, G. Musser) (Plen 12)   https://hameroff.arizona.edu/

 

 

Highlights

The Science of Consciousness Conference 2025 
Barcelona  -  July 6 – 11, 2025 
 followed by: 
Festival of Consciousness  - Barcelona  July 11 – 13, 2025
Abstract Submissions   Abstracts Due - Jan 5-10, 2025   Notifications - Jan 12-20, 2025 
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2025

See CCS WEBSITE for Program Details - 2025

www.consciousness.arizona.edu


2024 Tucson 

The Science of Consciousness TSC 30 Apr 22-27, 2024 - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona

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new banner 2024 dates Apr 22-27

Conference Website (See website for links to program and videos) 

Thank you to all our Plenary, Keynote Concurrent, Experiential and Special Guests

STEVEN LAUREYS, CLAUDIA PASSOS, GINA POE, EARL K. MILLER, DONALD HOFFMAN, DEEPAK CHOPRA, PAAVO PYLKKÄNEN, André  BASTOS, PULIN GONG, DIMITRIS PINOTSIS, SUSAN SCHNEIDER, TANYA LUHRMANN, Justin Riddle, GEORGE MASHOUR, AARON SCHURGER, PIETER-JAN MAES, JEROME BUSEMEYER, ANIRBAN BANDYOPADHYAY, CALEB SCHARF, PHILLIPE SCHMITT-KOPPLIN, STUART HAMEROFF, DANTE LAURETTA, HARALD ATMANSPACHER, BILL SEAGER, DEAN RICKLES, DAVID CHALMERS, CHRISTOF KOCH, Sue blackmore, Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Matteo Grasso, ZIRUI HUANG, SANTOSH HELEKAR, SIR ROGER PENROSE, ALYSSON MUOTRI, HARMUT NEVEN   

2022 The Science of Consciousness -Tucson
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TSC 2022

Program & Abstracts  TSC 2022    View | Download   

Session Videos TSC 2022 YouTube Channel  

Guest Interviews - TSC 2022 - Conscious Pictures 
We held a  'hybrid' conference with both in-person, and remote online presentation and audience, live streamed. The live sessions and remote headquarters were held at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona
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The Science of Consciousness 
Conferences & Webinars (continued)
TSC 2023 - TAORMINA, SICILY, ITALY 
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TSC 2023 Taormina

 

Media Highlights

TSC Conference Videos YouTube

Roger Penrose Intro Reel 90th & Nobel Prize Highlights  Link  

Retro Mix History of TSC - CCS   YouTube

2014 - TSC Tucson 20th Anniversary | YouTube  "It was 20 Years Ago Today ..." 

Arizona Public Media   AZPM  

Conscious Pictures  Link 

20 Years Looking Ahead - David Chalmers

Quantum Consciousness series with Justin Riddle

#30 - Current Events in Orch-OR: an interview with Stuart Hameroff