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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
See CCS WEBSITE for Program Details - 2025
2024 Tucson
The Science of Consciousness TSC 30 Apr 22-27, 2024 - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona
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
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
OSIRIS-REx, 1 year later: Asteroid sample continues to provide clues about early solar system and origins of life on Earth U of A Regents Professor Dante Lauretta says he is "amazed by the discoveries we've made" since the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered an asteroid sample to Earth last year. Read moreProfessor Lauretta is co-chair of the Center for Consciousness Studies |
$1M gift will advance consciousness research at U of A Astrobiology Center
The Arizona Astrobiology Center received a $1 million gift from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer, to support research on the origins of life and consciousness.
Stuart Hameroff, Director Center for Consciousness Studies
Sat 25 May 2024 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm BST
HowTheLightGetsIn | Festivals - 24-27 May 2024 - Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK
Consciousness Pre-Dates Life
Many scientists, operating with a materialist worldview, argue that consciousness emerges out of inanimate molecules. In contrast, Roger Penrose's longtime collaborator, Stuart Hameroff, puts forward the controversial case that consciousness precedes life and that we have evidence for this from a recent NASA experiment.
"Hameroff's theories are getting support from unlikely places." ‑ Discover Magazine
2022 The Science of Consciousness -Tucson
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
2022 Tokyo
Hameroff | University of Tokyo | June 22, 2022
This is an in depth talk on consciousness, cells, life, microtubules, humans, with a touch of Sir Roger Penrose. Hosted by Ken Mogi and Takashi Ikegami.
2020
Penrose | Hameroff Consciousness and the Physics of the Brain Qualcomm Institute - Jan 10, 2020
2017
EmQM17 | Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2017
S. Hameroff | Anesthesia, Consciousness, Bohm & Penrose
University of London |
Oct 26-28, 2017
The Science of Consciousness
Conferences & Webinars (continued)
SINCE 1994
The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences are the pre-eminent world gatherings on all approaches to the profound and fundamental question of how the brain produces conscious experience, a question which addresses who we are, the nature of reality and our place in the universe. The TSC conferences are sponsored and produced by The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
TSC 2023 - TAORMINA, SICILY, ITALY
TESTING ORCH OR - TSC 2022 WORKSHOP
Bruce MacIver, Stanford U; Jack Tuszynski, U of Alberta/Politecnico di Torino; Aarat Kalra, Princeton; Greg Scholes, Princeton; Aristide Dogariu, U of Central Florida; Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern U - Apr 18, 2022
Media Highlights
from 'What the Bleep do We Know!? (2004)
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What the #$*! Do We Know!?)
Quantum Consciousness series with Justin Riddle