New Foundations of Mind

07/23/2026

New Wexford Summer School to Celebrate the Legacy of Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin

A new bilingual festival celebrating the life, work and vision of Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin will make its debut in Wexford later this month.

The inaugural Scoil Samhraidh an Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin will take place on 31st July and 1st August 2026, bringing together leading voices in music, science, history, culture and the Irish language under the theme "From Wexford to the World."

Speaking on Morning Mix, internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist and composer Melanie O'Reilly, who was Dr. Ó Nualláin's partner for 28 years, and Cory Ó Brollacháin outlined the vision behind the new annual event.

The festival honours the legacy of Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin, who passed away in January. A respected academic, author, musician and passionate advocate for the Irish language, he envisioned an annual gathering in Wexford where artists, scientists, scholars and local communities could come together through Gaeilge to exchange ideas and celebrate Irish culture while building international connections.

The summer school opens on Friday, 31st July, with an official reception at the Talbot Hotel Wexford, followed by a keynote lecture from Emeritus Professor Ruairí Brugha entitled "Celtic Spirituality – Cosán Nua."

On Saturday, 1st August, the conference continues with an impressive line-up of speakers including Emeritus Professor Des O'Neill, Brian Ó Cléirigh, Dr. Ronan Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Dr. Éamon Ó Ciosáin, Tom Conway and American author Cynthia Sue Larson. Topics will range from Irish history, medieval literature and Celtic languages to medicine, physics and the role of the Irish language and culture in the modern world.

The festival concludes with a special concert at Wexford Arts Centre featuring Melanie O'Reilly's Gaelic Jazz Group, Breton musician Brewen Favrau, London-Irish fiddler James Patrick Gavin, along with Scott Flanagan, Dave Mooney, Alice Wickham and James McIntyre. The performance will celebrate Irish-language poetry, original music and the long-standing cultural connections between Ireland and Brittany.

Organisers say the event is open to everyone, whether fluent Irish speakers, learners, music lovers or those with an interest in history, science and culture. They hope the festival will become an annual fixture on Wexford's cultural calendar, creating a unique space where creativity, scholarship and the Irish language come together.

The organisers say Scoil Samhraidh an Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin aims to carry forward Dr. Ó Nualláin's vision of using the Irish language as a bridge between local heritage and global ideas.

SUPPORTED BY: Foras na Gaeilge and An tOireachtais

https://www.southeastradio.ie/news/wexford/new-wexford-summer-school-to-celebrate-the-legacy-of-dr-sean-o-nuallain/

07/11/2026

We have just changed our name, & will have news of an upcoming event very soon!

03/21/2025

Conference Announcement:

Wexford celebration of mind and consciousness in honour of Wexford's Arthur Conway

Easter weekend 2025
April 19-21, 2025
Red Books
Selskin House, St Peter's Square, Townparks, Wexford, Y35 ER2F, Ireland

We have all heard about chat GPT. But the central issues of consciousness , quantum processing in the brain - including computation - and neuroscience have remained as yet untouched. For example, Elon Musk has invested billions and sacrificed many monkeys in a doomed and brutal neuro project. Quantum computing simply is not working as the environment interferes with the coherent quantum state.

Since the early1990s Ireland held annual conferences in these areas which went on to be the most downloaded papers in the history of science with over a million in total. They are open access and some can be found in the open access journal cosmos and history. They cost the Irish taxpayer nothing and brought visitors in from all over the world to Ireland before being transferred to UC Berkeley, the number 1 public university in the world

The reason for the transfer was the CIA takeover of science at the universities in Ireland, which you as taxpayer have funded to the tune of 1 billion a year since 2003. The founder of science foundation Ireland (SFI) - Anita Jones - was outed as a CIA asset by the Wall street journal in 2016 but SFI still holds talk at Wexford library (and elsewhere). which you fund, and took your money even during the worst of the recession, with Richard Bruton giving it 8 billion. .

The format is 9-12 noon and 2-5pm Sat to Monday. There will be plenty of time for Q+A. We have stellar speakers including Paul Werbos, the inventor of deep learning (of which chat GPT is an example) , Chris Langan, the highest IQ ever recorded (check his recent interview which so far has had 11 million+ views) and Jack Sarfatti, of the hippies who saved physics. (and yes,, that is a take on the Irish saving civilisation). The conference is in honour of the 150 th anniversary of the birth of great Irish mathematician and politician Arthur Conway and we will break Sunday to visit the plaque to his honour on the gate at the bullring

Red books is a public space. and feel free to browse the talks while browsing the store. To formally attend, and ask questions. we welcome donation pf 50 euro for the weekend.

More details will be posted; for the moment address your queries to: [email protected]

08/27/2021

Introduction; the late, great, human brain
Sean O Nuallain

There is as yet no consensus on where consciousness fits in modern science. By the end of this course I hope you will be convinced we have to take into account the Arts and other parts of human existence. However there is much that we can do within the purely scientific context.

In particular we can approach brain science in a responsible and creative way. As you will see with just a few simple simulations which you will be able to run yourselves we can achieve extraordinary results.

Well into the second decade of the 21st century Karl Pribram and his student Walter Freeman the third, who were both members of the great generation, were teaching us how to study the brain. The approach in general can be called neural dynamics but goes well beyond what we currently understand by that term. Literally tens of billions of euro and dollars have been spent on fruitless quests using other approaches since 2000 and it is now time to give these two great scientists a chance to speak to us.

Karl Pribram worked with our team in Dublin in 1999. He had been attending a conference that we organised and one of of my computing PhD students took him out to see Dublin over a few days. The result was the only computational implementation of his work during his lifetime. That will be the content of our first few sessions and you will learn how to to run some simple programmes implementing his vision.

In 2007 I took over running Walter's lab at UC Berkeley. That began a close Association which continued until he passed away in 2016. He was an enormous supporter of my group foundations of mind and published both with me and group several times. We have several videos of the talks that he gave us and most importantly we have code you will also be able to run.

Pribram will be our first port of call. He was a fascinating character and his range of reference ran to David Bohm and physics as well as the nitty-gritty of neurosurgery which he performed before committing to pure research. His most famous speculation is that the brain worked like a hologram. In fact the whole cosmos was a hologram and we in some sense were a reference beam that unveiled the reality or implicate order underlying all things

So what we experience is an explicate order as both he and David Bohm asserted. We will return to such speculation. The major point to derive from this is our sensory systems analyse a noisy, infinitely large set of sensory data, and produce compressions that are useful to the cortex. Of course, this is pretty much exactly what AI systems are doing at the moment but the brain and sensory systems in humans do it infinitely better.
.. read more:

https://consciousness2021.blogspot.com/2021/08/introduction-late-great-human-brain.html

08/23/2020

We are proud to announce the Summer Noceto Program: Aug 27-28 2020

QUARTO SUMMER SCHOOL SU FISICA QUANTISTICA, PRATICHE MEDITATIVE E RELAZIONI INTERPERSONALI
Workshop teorico-esperienziale di Quantum Psychology su:
COSCIENZA E DIMENSIONE UNIFICATA DELLO SPAZIO-TEMPO

“Che questa vita sia solo un frammento dell’esistenza che si svolge in un universo tridimensionale disposto a tale scopo. [...] o una condizione non-temporale nella quale presente, passato e futuro sono una cosa sola?» C.G.Jung,

Cosa si intende per coscienza? E’ una funzione della nostra mente correlata all’attenzione, e quindi all’essere consapevoli che qualcosa intorno a noi sta succedendo? Oppure con coscienza si intende il percepire se stessi come una personalità ben definita, plasmata dalla nostra memoria autobiografica, che si identifica con un “io sono”? Come la coscienza è legata all’esperienza di possedere/essere un corpo? E gli stati non ordinari di coscienza (come il sonno ed il sogno) cosa possono insegnarci sul cosiddetto stato ordinario?
Questo seminario vuole essere una occasione di confronto tra fisici, antropologi, psicologi e ricercatori riguardo ai molteplici punti di vista che costituiscono un approccio integrato al fenomeno della coscienza, da un’indagine filosofica alla ricerca dei suoi correlati neuro-anatomici, dal farne esperienza fino ad arrivare alle ultime teorie in ambito biofisico. I vari campi del sapere e le ultime frontiere della ricerca scientifica offrono una panoramica del “mistero dei misteri”, il delfico “conosci te stesso”, regalandoci ciascuno il proprio punto di vista e il proprio metro d’indagine per stimolare la curiosità e l’entusiasmo per quella che rappresenta forse l’essenza delle Scienze Umane, al confine tra Scienze della Natura e dello Spirito per usare la definizione del filosofo della scienza Wilhelm Dilthey.
Il seminario, di carattere teorico-esperienziale, prevede una introduzione ai principi ispiratori della Fisica quantistica, cui seguiranno approfondimenti su temi di Quantum Psychology applicata alla psicoterapia e più in generale alla dimensione heideggeriana dell’essere-nel-mondo (Da sein), alla connotazione unificante dello spazio-tempo, alla “Teoria del sé” e delle funzioni del contatto nella interazione Individuo/ambiente dell’approccio gestaltico e alle relazioni interpersonali (Ich und Du di Buber) con riferimenti al concetto di entaglement nelle relazioni “di aiuto” con implicazioni nella pratica della meditazione interpersonale di Claudio Naranjo.
A partire da quest’anno, e a seguito dei tre anni nei quali la Summer school si è sviluppata, a questa parte ad orientamento maggiormente umanistico-esperienziale in italiano seguirà una parte in inglese di approfondimento su “Consciousness and Cognition” che si terrà con docenze on-line dal 29 agosto al 6 Settembre 2020 con il coordinamento del prof. Bruno Neri dell’Università di Pisa (www.fomsummerschool.org ). Dalla sede del seminario sarà possibile seguire alcune delle lezioni on-line.

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Agosto 27-28. Il 26 per Corso introduttivo alla Fisica quantistica

26.8 Riccardo Zerbetto Il carteggio tra Jung e Pauli come paradigma di incontro tra Fisica quantistica e Psicologia
Alessandro Bernardini, fisico: Principi di fisica quantistica e studi sulla coscienza
Gabriele Penazzi, psicologo: I modelli neuroscientifici della coscienza
27.8 Giuseppe Vitiello, fisico quantistico: Bits of consciousness
Tania Re, psicologa e antropologa: La coscienza ed i suoi diversi stati
Antonio Alcaro, psicoterapeuta: Sé arcaico e funzione dell'immaginazione in una prospettiva neuro-etologica
28.8 Andrea Careggio, psicoterapeuta: Cosa significa essere psicoterapeuta in un mondo quantistico?
Riccardo Zerbetto, psichiatra e psicoterapeuta:Qui-ed-ora e continuum di consapevolezza in una prospettiva quantistica
Sean O’Nuallain, fisico, fondatore di Foundations of Mind (www.foundationofmind.org ): Teoria del chaos e modelli matematici di diffusione del Covid-19
Il costo è di 60 euro per ogni giornata di docenza (o 150 per l’intero corso) che prevede una pratica meditativa mattutina e due presentazioni di due ore ciascuna al mattino comprensive di dibattito ed una al pomeriggio cui segue confronto sulle tematiche esposta ed interventi preordinati. La forma espositiva sarà in presenza o a distanza sia per i docenti che per i partecipanti.
Per i (rari) interventi in inglese è prevista la traduzione sequenziale o con sottotitoli. E’ prevista la consegna/invio di documentazione scientifica inerente le tematiche affrontate e attestato di partecipazione.

Per informazioni sul programma scientifico Dr. Penazzi 380 4690136
Segreteria organizzativa per sistemazioni logistiche e vitto presso la struttura residenziale o nei dintorni contattare:
Daniel 393 9119924 email [email protected] - www.nocetiamo.it. ccb IBAN: IT21N0103014200000011353274 (causale: Summer 2020).

Podere Noceto, Via di Grotti-Bagnaia 1216 Monteroni d’Arbia 53014 - www.cstg.it

04/25/2020

FOM Summer School
Monday, August 26

9am – Introduction Seán Ó Nualláin
9:15 The physics, phenomenology and neuroscience of consciousness
and meditation / Seán Ó Nualláin
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – Computational neuroscience / David Bernal-Casas
12:00 – Isomorphism between Cell Language and Human Language / Sungchul Ji (Live streaming)
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 Continuum of awareness and here and now in Gestalt according to a quantum physics dimension / Riccardo Zerbetto
16:45 – Quantum Physics and Consciousness / Paul Werbos (Live streaming)
19:00 – Phenomenological Yoga Practice // Giulia Moiraghi
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Tuesday, August 27

9:15 – The physics, phenomenology and neuroscience of consciousness and
meditation/ Seán Ó Nualláin
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – Computational neuroscience / David Bernal-Casas
12:00 – Cell Psychology & Cell Consciousness / Sungchul Ji (Live streaming)
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:45 Continuum of awareness and here and now in Gestalt according to a quantum physics dimension / Riccardo Zerbetto
16:45 – Quantum Physics and Consciousness / Paul Werbos (Live streaming)
19:00 – Phenomenological Yoga Practice // Giulia Moiraghi
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Wednesday, August 28

9:15 The physics, phenomenology and neuroscience of consciousness and
meditation/ Seán Ó Nualláin
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – The neuroscience of breathing / Gabriele Penazzi
12:00 – DNA Linguistics / Sungchul Ji (Live streaming)
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:45 High Computational neuroscience/ David Bernal
16:45 – Meditation, consciousness and high performance / Philip Shinnick
19:00 – Phenomenological Yoga Practice // Giulia Moiraghi
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Thursday , August 29

9:15 Planck-Shannon plots (PSP), Superstructures & Consciousness Quantification / Sungchul Ji (Live streaming)
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – Meditation, consciousness and high performance / Philip Shinnick
12:00 – Cannabis essential oil: a preliminary study for the evaluation of the brain effects / Tania Re
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 17:30 Report from a Tibetan Monastery: Inner and outer phenomenology of non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by meditation / Bruno Neri
18:00 – 19:00 The potential of clinical hypnosis in the expansion of consciousness // Mario Simões
19:45 – Phenomenological Yoga Practice // Giulia Moiraghi
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Friday, August 30

Friday, August 30
9:15 Religious addiction: a (re-)emerging behavioral addiction / Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 Quantum model in therapeutic practice / Andrea Careggio
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch

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