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- 2025-05-01 - Abstract submission has been closed.
- 2025-03-06 - Abstract due by the end of April, 2025. Confirmations will be made by the end of May. We welcome submissions on all topics related to embodied cognitive science.
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About the Workshop
Welcome to the 2025 International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science, hosted by the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. This year’s keynotes will focus on the theme of Agency Across Scales: From Cells to Societies.
This meeting aims to gather an international group of theoreticians and experimentalists from cognitive science, psychology, developmental biology, artificial life, computer science, neuroscience, and philosophy to examine the state of the art in the phenomenon of agency and its manifestation across different scales, from cells to society. The focus will be on exploring shared organizational principles connecting diverse expressions of agency and the interaction between them. By drawing on strong theoretical foundations of cognitive agency at the individual human level, the goal is to investigate whether these insights can open new perspectives on smaller (e.g., cells) and larger living systems (e.g., ecologies), and vice versa. The outcomes of this inquiry can enhance our interacting with and shaping of biological regulation at all scales, with broad implications for health-giving interventions.
We are pleased to extend an invitation for contributions from all disciplines embracing the embodied approach. Although the focus of our keynotes is on the topic of agency across scales, we welcome submissions on all topics related to embodied cognitive science.
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Program
Day One | 2025年11月10日
8:30
Coffee, Welcoming with traditional music instrument
9:00
An Agency Continuum: From Carbon to Silicon, and Beyond
Sheila Macrine (Remote)
10:20
Buzz Circles
10:40
Coffee
11:00
Quantifying what is efficacious yet not observable: Cognitive neuroscience’s measurement problem has a solution
Tom Froese
11:40
Buzz Circles
12:00
Lunch
13:20
The origin of agency: A synchronic and diachronic approach
Alessandro Solfo
13:40
When Decisions Matter: Entropy Dynamics in EEG Reveal Deliberate versus Arbitrary Choices
Milan Rybar
14:00
Internally-funded improbability: a thermodynamic account of agency
Benjamin Gaskin
14:20
Buzz Circles
14:40
Poster Fire Rounds (25 posters)
15:40
ECSU Lab tour
16:20
Coffee
16:40
Chance, Choice, and Control – Agency in Real Time
Kevin Mitchell (Remote)
17:40
End of Day One
18:00
Evening Reception at OIST main campus
Day Two | 2025年11月11日
8:30
Coffee
9:00
Unconventional embodiments: model systems and strategies for addressing mind-blindness
Mike Levin (Remote)
10:00
Embodied learning as a self-organized, multi-scale process
Alexander Hölken
10:20
Buzz Circles
10:40
Coffee
11:00
Sensorimotor Agency: A cohesion of purposeful power
Jonathan Delafield-Butt
11:40
Buzz Circles
12:00
Lunch
13:20
Embodied Agency Begins in the Muscles: Abductive Control from Intent to Action
Patrick Grüneberg
13:40
Hands and Minds Together: Using Scaffolding and Offloading in Learning
Akhi Kumar Singh
14:00
Institutions and the enactment of shared problem domains
Konrad Werner
14:20
Buzz Circles
14:40
Coffee
15:00
Group selection, path dependency, and the evolution of human cooperation
Charles Stanish
15:40
Buzz Circles
16:00
End of Day Two
Day Three | 2025年11月12日
8:30
Coffee
9:00
The Path-Dependent Mind: Individuation, Vulnerability, and the Ontogenesis of Mental Conditions
Enara Garcia
9:40
Embodied agency at the cellular scale: a body-schema perspective on testate amoeba behaviors
Norihiko Kamaya & Katsunori Miyahara
10:00
Some Philosophical and Practical Implications of Non-determinism in Computations
Georgii Karelin
10:20
Buzz Circles
10:40
Coffee
11:00
From slime molds to sentience: Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum
Philip Kurian
11:40
Buzz Circles
12:00
Lunch
13:20
Heijoshin and the Threat of Automating Agency
Jay McKinney
13:40
Catalysing Change: From Spontaneous Noise in Multiscale Alignment to Wayshaping
Mark James
14:00
End of Day Three
14:20
Bus Departure for Excursion
Day Four | 2025年11月13日
8:30
Coffee
9:00
Enacting human collectives: autonomy, normativity and agency at the collective scale
Glenda Satne
9:40
Untapped Potential in Self-Optimization of Hopfield Networks: The Creativity of Unsupervised Learning
Natalya Weber
10:00
From habit-habitat to memet-memetat: An enactive-embedded model of a cognitive agent from cells to societies
Nagarjuna G
10:20
Buzz Circles
10:40
Coffee
11:00
Interacting Brains: Social Engagement and Synchronization
Rieko Osu
11:40
Buzz Circles
12:00
Lunch
13:20
“Bodily” Presence in Joint Digital Interaction
John Anderson P-Duarte
13:40
Embodied cognition as the forgotten dimension in the neuroscience of consciousness
Moritz Kriegleder
14:00
Buzz Circles
14:20
Coffee
14:40
Poster Session
16:40
End of Day Four
17:45
Bus Departure for Banquet
18:00
Banquet
Day Five | 2025年11月14日
8:30
Coffee
9:00
Capture the individual difference in the sense of agency
Wen Wen
9:40
Venue transfers for group work
10:00
Theme Tables
at C015, C016, D014
11:00
Coffee
by venue C209
11:20
Group Reflection
at C209
12:00
Lunch
13:20
Embodied Minds Between Being and Doing: A Computational Neurophenomenological Approach to Mindfulness
Keisuke Suzuki
13:40
Closing remarks, and thank you
14:00
Grad School Pitch
14:20
OIST Campus tour
15:45
Bus Departure for BBQ
Keynote Speakers
Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin (Remote)
Lecturer, University of the Basque Country
Professor, Tufts University (Remote)
Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
Associate Professor, Rikkyo University
Professor, Waseda University
Professor, UMass Dartmouth (Remote)
Professor, University of Strathclyde
Professor, Univeristy of South Florida
Registration Information
| Registration Type | Registration Fee | Accommodation | Meals |
| Student | 20,000 JPY | Yes (Seaside House) | Yes |
| Non-Student | 60,000 JPY | No | Yes |
Free Seaside House accommodations are available for students.
Upon completion of the abstract submission form above, and after review by the organizer, a payment link will be emailed to participants based on their registration category.
Both registration categories include access to all talks, all scheduled meals, and transport to and from the excursion (entrance fees not included).
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Venue
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)
How to get to OIST
Please see https://www.oist.jp/campus/access-map.
Accommodation/Hotels
OIST Seaside House (Only for Students)
Limited to 22 rooms.
Check-in 15:00
Check-out 10:00
Nearby Hotels
Kafuu Resort Fuchaku CONDO・HOTEL
Hotel Monterey Okinawa Spa & Resort
Organizers & Contact
Conference Chair, OIST
Program Chair, OIST
Local Organizer, OIST
Local Organizer, OIST
Technical Support, OIST
Code of Conduct
We are committed to making our workshops (workshop(s) organized by OIST, hereinafter “our workshop(s)”) an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. We will not tolerate disrespectful communication, discrimination, harassment, or bullying in any form. As such, all participants attending our workshops are required to comply with this Code of Conduct. To provide all participants with the opportunity to benefit from our workshops, we at OIST are dedicated to a positive, safe and harassment-free experience. Harassment in any form is specifically prohibited.