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Detailed program

Parallel discussions and poster sessions by room, Day 0 to Day 5. The posters go up in both Horai and Suisen, which adjoin on East 2F; the poster slots below are the staffed ones. This is a working version and sessions may still move. Travel, meals and the excursion are on the main programme.

Day 0 — Monday, September 28 (optional)

Time Horai蓬莱Main trackup to 50 · East 2F
16:00–23:00 Informal discussions for early arrivers

An informal afternoon excursion (ferry to the island in the lake) may be arranged for early arrivers.

Day 1 — Tuesday, September 29

Time Genseirin原生林Main trackup to 200 · Central 3F
9:00–13:00 Informal discussions for early arrivers
15:00–18:00 Introductions & Poster Session (3-min self-intros)

The afternoon opens at 15:00, followed by introductions and two poster groups — see the main programme for the breakdown.

Day 2 — Wednesday, September 30

Time Genseirin原生林Main trackup to 200 · Central 3F
8:30–9:00 Reflection time
9:00–12:30 Introductions & Poster Session (3-min self-intros)
13:00–14:00 Lunch (included)
Time Suisen水仙Poster sessionup to 20 · East 2F Horai蓬莱Main trackup to 50 · East 2F Suma須磨Discussions with a small groupup to 25 · East B1 Suminoe住の江Discussions with a small groupup to 25 · East B1
14:00–15:00 Qualia structure and Inverted qualia? (Yu Togashi)talk 25 min + Q&A
15:00–16:00 Poster Session Session on the structure of space; MC: Qianchen Liang & Francesco Ellia10-15 min talk by QIanchen10-15 min by AndrewQ&A
16:00–16:30 break
16:30–17:30 From Theory to Experiment: Testing Predictive Processing and Theories of Consciousness(H. Oyama, K. Sunny, K. Sehara, M. Inoue)10 min talkOpen discussion Causality and free will in living and non-living systems (Takashi Ikegami) Qstr Book - Editorial MEETING
17:30–18:30 Chapter summary session (1)
18:30–18:50 Reflection time
19:00 Reception (included)
20:45–21;05 fireworks If you can use female bath on 8th floor, highly recommended to watch it from there
21:00 1F lound space YouTube live ff

Day 3 — Thursday, October 1

Time Suisen水仙Poster sessionup to 20 · East 2F Horai蓬莱Main trackup to 50 · East 2F Suma須磨Discussions with a small groupup to 25 · East B1 Suminoe住の江Discussions with a small groupup to 25 · East B1
08:30–09:00 Reflection time
09:00–10:00 Poster Session On Metastability and Gestalt: Front-Loading Structure and Constitution of Agency (Alessandro Solfo)
10:00–10:30 Break
10:30–11:30 Session on Quantum approaches to Consciousness;Speaker: Robert Prentner & Hayato Saigo(Organized by Wataru Kawakami & Francesco Ellia) Discussion on Number and DevelopmentMoriguchi Saji & Nakai
11:30–11:50 Reflection time
12:00–13:00 Lunch (included)
13:30 Excursion to Upopoy — National Ainu Museum and Park (return ~18:30)

Day 4 — Friday, October 2

Time Suisen水仙Poster sessionup to 20 · East 2F Horai蓬莱Main trackup to 50 · East 2F Suma須磨Discussions with a small groupup to 25 · East B1 Suminoe住の江Discussions with a small groupup to 25 · East B1
9:00–10:00 Experiencing novel color qualia? (Organized by Masafumi Oizumi): Invited Talk (Atsunobu Kotani UC Berkeley) and follow-up discussions (Online talk)
10:00–11:00 Poster Session Chapter summary session (2)
11:00–11:30 Break
11:30–12:30 Geometric structure of language (Organized by Masafumi Oizumi): Invited Talk (Sho Yokoi) and follow-up discussions
12:30–12:50 Reflection time
13:00–14:00 Lunch (included)
14:00–15:00 Poster Session Qualia of Taste or Food-Experiences (M. Inoue, K. Sehara, F. Ellia, D. Iwama) Self-unity and self-continuityof dissociative identity disorder and split-brain patients(Yuria Shimizu)
15:00–16:00 Introducing the "IIT Expert" (Matteo Grasso & Jeremiah Hendren)
16:00–16:30 break
16:30–17:30
17:30–17:50 Reflection time
19:00 Social Dinner

Day 5 — Saturday, October 3

Time Shiki四季Main trackup to 80 · West 2F
8:30–9:00 Reflection time
9:00–12:00 Floor discussion
12:00–13:00 check out
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Departure

The chartered bus leaves for New Chitose Airport at 14:00 and reaches the airport at about 16:00.

Poster Presentations

NameAffiliationPoster title
Keisuke SuzukiHokkaido UniversityArtificial Externality: A Three-Layer Model of Reality from Substrate to Smart Contract
Daichi G. SuzukiUniv of TsukubaBio-CPC: Collective Predictive Computation in Biological Organization
Daichi G. SuzukiUniv of TsukubaPersons, Doctrines, and Offices: Epistemic Authority and the Formation of Autonomous Scientific Fields
Jeremiah HendrenLudwig Maximilian University of Munich / University of Wisconsin–Madison (CSC)Can extrinsic methods reveal intrinsic structure? Complementing IIT with QStr
Kallum RobinsonHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin / University of Wisconsin–Madison (CSC)Rosetta Stone and Levels of Principled Inference to the Experience of Another Mind
Matteo GrassoATRConsciousness as Intrinsic Structure: Towards a Chemistry of Experience
Nana NishioUniv of TokyoNeural response organization in the mouse temporal visual association area: implications for an innate value basis of cross-modal correspondences
Henrique OyamaOISTA Predictive Coding Account of Transitions Between Focus and Mind-Wandering in Humanoid Robots
Angus LeungATR / Monash UniversityRestructuring of neural representations under anesthesia in rat auditory cortex
Misic TinThe University of OsakaSensory Precision Inference for Multimodal Arbitration under Uncertainty
Yusuke MoriguchiKyoto UniversityEmotion-color association in children and adults
Zoe Lee-YoungzieATR/UCLACan language models capture the relational structure of complex phenomenal experiences?
John SykesOISTAn Enactive Ontology of Schizophrenia: Irruption, Absorption and the Self-World Dynamic
Yuria ShimizuUniv of TokyoRelational Knowledge Distillation Enables Unsupervised Alignment of Human and DNN Representational Structure
Sergio Ponce de LeonUniversity of California, MercedMeasuring conscious contents using EEG complexity
Takafumi HorieKyoto UniversityEmergent Communication with Mutual Segmentation of Character Strings and Multi-attribute Context
Mario ZarcoHokkaido UniversityLinking subjective reports to visual features to characterize the world as it feels unreal in Derealization
Masayoshi SomeyaHokkaido UniversityRecent Development in the Psychological Science of Non-neural Organisms and the Philosophy of Psychology
Michiko AsanoThe University of TokyoEffects of Stimulus Intensity on Crossmodal Correspondences between Taste and Shape
Sunny KimTohoku UniversityAre you heartbroken or devastated? Distinct neural substrates of visceral expressions of emotion and general emotion labels
Jeff YoshimiUC MercedClarifying and Contextualizing the Qualia Structure Paradigm
Kosuke ItohNiigata UniversityChanges in “Synesthetic” Color Representations Following Relative-Pitch Training: Increased Differentiation of Solfège-Associated Colors in Non-Synesthetes
Tom FroeseOISTTBA
Hironobu OsakiDoshisha UniversityFunctional vulnerability of the M1/S1 transitional zone in post-stroke motor deficits in mice
Hironobu OsakiDoshisha UniversityTurning Motion Artifacts into 3D information: a Motion-Driven Volumetric Two-Photon Microscopy in vivo imaging
Tetsuto MinamiToyohashi university of technologyFrom Luminance to Illusion: Exploring the Hierarchy of Unconscious Processing
Kyoko KusanoZEN University / ATRCalculating Exact Generalized Magnitude on Real Similarity Judgment Data
Yasunori AizawaQSTExamining correspondence between color similarity rating structures with neural activity (2)
Masayo InoueKyushu Institute of TechnologyMathematical modeling of the process for embedding chronotype-derived learning histories into color qualia structures
Honami SakataNiigata UniversityChanges in Neural Representations Distinguishing the Tonic from Other Scale Degrees Following Relative Pitch Training: A Multivariate EEG Decoding Study
Nguyen Le HoangKyoto UniversityCan Emergent Communication Arise through Collective Self-Supervised Representation Learning
Mina ShamohammadiKyushu UniversityExperiencing Others’ Minds Through Music-Visual Synesthesia and Virtual Reality
Tsubasa OhkiKyushu UniversityThe Relationship Between Color and Food Representations in Hypnagogic Imagery
Ryuta KuwamizuUniversity of TsukubaRacket-hitting qualia structures — and their ball-dependent differences — align across individuals
Jumpei OgawaUniv of TokyoEvaluating the Structural Optimality of Vowel-Color Mappings via Optimal Transport
Hayato SaigoZEN UniversityLimits of Generalized Magnitude of Finite Dissimilarity Spaces
Mana FujiwaraZEN UniversityWhere is individual? Locating the experimental field in a regenerative planarian with regeneration-embedded mesh electronics and process causality
Claudia Pak (Mana Fujiwara)New York UniversityEvaluating background color effects on. calor qualia structures through similarity tasks
Ryuzo HirotaHokkaido UniversityWhat kind of causality is necessary for autonomy?
Mako IkedaKeio UniversityCharacterizing neurofeedback learning through hidden-markov modeling of brain state dynamics
Tomomi FujimotoNiigata University of Health and WelfareRobust individual-level structures of thermal qualia reveal distinct patterns of individual differences in sensation and comfort
Hiroyuki IizukaHokkaido University testA Constructive Approach to Qualia-Structure Alignment through a Superposition Mechanism
Takashi IkegamiAISAC Atomi universityA Constructive Approach to Generating and Analyzing Qualia Using the Humanoid ALTER3

The poster list is still being compiled.