Science and Consciousness: Exploring Beyond the Brain

During this special event, we awarded the inaugural Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize to teams whose research helps extend the science of consciousness beyond the confines of the materialistic paradigm. This prize recognizes those who are pushing the boundaries of what we know about consciousness and driving the field forward.

Various models of consciousness, including non-local consciousness theories, were also be explored. These models proposed that consciousness is fundamental and non-local, and could potentially explain exceptional human experiences that cannot be accounted for by traditional materialist models of consciousness.

Highlights
0:00 Intro
28:10 Panel with Theresa Cheung, Jude Currivan, PhD, and Jonathan Schooler, PhD (Moderated by IONS Chief Scientist Dean Radin, MS, PhD)
1:24:46 Wolfhardt Janu's Presentation "Detecting Deviations from Random Activity as Indications of Consciousness Beyond the Brain"
1:41:35 Don Hoffman's Presentation "Conscious Agents and the Subatomic World"
1:59:58 Alex Gomez Marin's Presentation "Seeing Without Eyes"
2:20:23 Panel with Peter Bancel, PhD, Roger Nelson, PhD, Bruce Damer, PhD, and Marilyn Schlitz (PhD) (Moderated By IONS Director of Research Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR)

[wildhumans]

Dean's a hero in my eyes. Love his work.

[LiveEnergyTC]

Hi there this is fantastic. I am teaching children to read blindfolded and they are "seeing without their eyes". Nicola Farmer in the UK has developed a technique to allow them to do this. It truly is the most beautiful work I have been involved in

[gloriaharbin]

Great program and loved research winner proposals. Special place in my heart for your work and vision IONS and researchers! Thank you all.🙏

[NilsExp]

Starts like 15:00 actually around 28:00

[DizzDolly]

Have you guys ever discuss the split brain experiment?

[AntniTrudi]

Hi im 55years young and have survived multiple traumatic brain injuries. I would like to shaer my story regarding phenomena and anomalies and especially how my mind is still the same in realtion to my persona work however my brain now interacts quite differently with the physical realm….

[constructivecritique]

How would physical science identify human consciousness?

[constructivecritique]

Non-local consciousness may be conceived as the ether! A live feed universal sensory feedback system. As in our own local consciousness, which models our body and its environment in the realm of our mind and provides feedback potential into the physical world. Neither the universe or the body are conscious. Consciousness is in a separate realm of reality.