Mind Science Foundation

Updated on Dec 20, 2023

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The Mind Science Foundation (MSF) is a private nonprofit scientific foundation in San Antonio, Texas, established by philanthropist Thomas Baker Slick in 1958.

The Mind Science Foundation’s modern-day mission is to raise awareness and levels of funding for one of the major unsolved questions in science: how consciousness arises in human beings (Science July 1, 2005).

Awards and sponsorship of research

MSF is a principal, international supporter of pilot data grants for consciousness research. Some recent award recipients include:

Fred Gage – Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Susan Greenfield – Oxford University

Christof Koch – California Institute of Technology

V.S. Ramachandran – University of California San Diego

Lecture events

In addition to funding leading researchers in the field, the Mind Science Foundation hosts a Distinguished Speakers Series to heighten public awareness of practical topics related to human consciousness. Examples of past speakers include:

Jonas Salk – Inaugural Speaker, Distinguished Speakers Series

Steven Laureys – University of Liege, Belgium

J. Allan Hobson - Harvard Medical School

Kay Redfield Jamison Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Temple Grandin – Colorado State University

Jane Goodall – Goodall Institute

Sponsoring events

The Mind Science Foundation also supports international symposia and conferences focused on the scientific study of consciousness. MSF has also helped sponsor events with the following organizations:

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

ASSC-8 Satellite meeting (Antwerp, 2004): “Coma and Impaired Consciousness”

ASSC-9 (Caltech, 2005)

ASSC-10 (Oxford, 2006)

Mind and Life Institute

Public Meeting with the Dalai Lama (M.I.T., 2003)

Public Meeting with the Dalai Lama (Washington, D. C., 2005)