Alternate conferences are held in Arizona (either Tucson or Phoenix), and the others in locations worldwide.
[1] The main organizer is Stuart Hameroff, an anestheologist and the director of the center that hosts the conference.
[6] Chapter 8 of John Horgan's book The Undiscovered Mind is entirely devoted to his experiences at the first (1994) TSC conference.
[12] In The New York Times, George Johnson wrote about the 2016 conference that "wild speculations and carnivalesque pseudoscience were juxtaposed with sober sessions".
[13] The conference and its main organizers were the subject of a long feature in June 2018, first in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and re-published in The Guardian.