International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science, November 7-11, Okinawa

There will be a full-fledged onsite conference on embodied cognition in a week.

International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science

ECogS 2022 "Interaction Matters"

at OIST, Okinawa, Japan

I've just started to prepare for my talk titled "Embodied cognitive revolution behind the “sapient paradox”" 

Sapient Paradox is a question formulated by Colin Renfrew in his 1996 paper, pointing out that there is a big temporal gap between the accomplishment of human evolution in anatomical senses and the manifestation of human cognitive capabilities in civilizations. In fact, human evolution in a biological sense was accomplished some 60,000 years ago (or as long as 200,000 years ago when the Sapiens appeared), but human civilization first appeared 12000-10000 years ago. If there is such a gap, there should be an account on human cognitive capacities that prepared for the formation of early civilization, which involved the development of sedentism, stock rearing, and agriculture. My talk deals with this problem from the perspective of embodied cognition.

See you soon in Okinawa,

S

Upcoming Event: "Embodied Spirituality" (September 23rd)

We are going to hold an online symposium on September 23rd. 

Tokai University Online Symposium

"Embodied Spirituality: Meditation practices in the contemporary world"

September 23rd, 2022, 10:00 - 12:00 CET / 17:00 - 19:00 JST

All those who are interested in embodiment and spirituality are welcome. Please follow the link below and register your name and e-mail address. You will get the webinar link after the registration.

> REGISTER HERE

My talk is titled "On the spiritual dimension of embodied experiences." Though I have not finished preparing for my talk yet, my main idea is very simple: Our bodily experiences such as sports and dance inherently have spiritual dimensions. Are you interested? Please join us!

Best,

S