The Science of CONSCIOUSNESS Conference

The Science of CONSCIOUSNESS Conference

is now presented by the Arizona Astrobiology Center, UArizona

April 6-11, 2026 - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort | Tucson AZ

Registration:

Conference Registration: via Eventbrite.

Standard: $550 Student: $450

Optional Thursday Dinner: $95

Exhibitors: $2500

Live Streaming: $199

includes 1 registration, exhibit space

Early Registration Deadline: December 20

Workshops, Experiential Sessions, Evening receptions (Tues, Wed, Fri) and Fri Party & Poetry Slam are included in the registration price

Program Updates & Schedules:

TSC Website - www.consciousness.arizona.edu

(7) Workshops on Monday April 6 Three in the morning; Three in the afternoon and 1 special evening workshop symposium

Call for Abstracts:

Abstracts: Oxford Abstracts Submission Link for TSC 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: November 15

Venue - Hotel Reservations - Group Block:

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort - Tucson - TSC 2026

Loews Hotel Room block is now open - LINK

You must use the Conference Room Block link in order to get the group block rate:

$179 (no resort fee for Conference Registrants).

Be sure that you Register for the Conference via the Eventbrite link.

Deadline for Loews Group Block Rate: March 13, 2026 (based on availability)

2026 TSC Conference Themes

Photons in the brain - Origins of life and Consciousness - Mitochondria and consciousness Awakening & enlightenment - Quantum brain biology - Consciousness and reality Can AI be conscious? - Psychedelic actions in the brain - Quantum AI. Measuring correlates of consciousness - Cerebral organoids and consciousness ‘Eschermatics’ - Consciousness and geometry - Extra-ocular vision – A critical assessment

Sponsorships:

Please contact Abi Behar Montefiore center@arizona.edu

Background:

The Science of Consciousness (‘TSC’) conference is the world’s longest running inter-disciplinary conference on rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding off consciousness, the nature of existence and our place in the universe. TSC emphasizes broad and rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding of consciousness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, cosmology, meditation and altered states, AI/machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology

TSC has alternated yearly since 1994 between Tucson, Arizona USA and elsewhere including Italy, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, California, Switzerland, Finland, and Taormina, on the island of Sicily. The 2025 TSC was held in Barcelona, Spain (July 6-11) preceding the Barcelona Festival of Consciousness

We face a crossroads in the age-old study of consciousness. Over the past thirty years approaches to understanding consciousness have diverged along two distinct paths: 1) ‘neurocomputational’ views of the brain as a complex computer of simple neurons, a view compatible with AI systems becoming conscious, and 2) ‘funda-mental’ views in which consciousness is intrinsic to the universe, connected to the brain through quantum biology. Exploring the funda-mental view, TSC embraces neuroscience biology far more rigorously than AI-compatible simple neurons. Ironically, conscious AI may be most likely to occur in biomimetic quantum computers.

Additional Links:

Eventbrite The Science of Consciousness Registration
YouTube Channel - The Science of Consciousness Conferences & Programs
Facebook CCS-TSC
Join TSC E-list

Videos:
YouTube Channel - The Science of Consciousness Conferences & Programs

Retro Anniversary

Penrose 2021 Nobel Prize - Intro Reel for TSC online program