ICPR 2026

Psychedelics, consciousness, and the nature of reality

Bernardo Kastrup · Anil Seth · Christoph Koch
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DayFriday, 5 June 2026
Time17:30 – 19:00 CEST · 90 min
RoomGriffiths Hall
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About this session

Psychedelics have forced some of the world's sharpest minds to rethink the nature of reality. Do altered states reveal something fundamental about the fabric of existence — or merely about the brain? Is consciousness the ground of reality, or its product, and how does the answer to this question influence the future of science? Bernardo Kastrup, Anil Seth, and Christof Koch join Hans Busstra to debate the hardest questions at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, and metaphysics.

Presenters
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Bernardo Kastrup

PhD

Executive Director, Author, Philosopher, Computer Scientist

Essentia Foundation
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Anil Seth

PhD

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

University of Sussex
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Christoph Koch

PhD

Chief Scientist

Tiny Blue Dot Foundation