Schedule:

8:30-9:00 — welcome coffee

9:00-10:30 — Session 1  (chair: Eran Agmon)

• 9:00-9:30 — Welcome: Eran Agmon and Martin Biehl
• 9:30-10:00 — Norman Packard: Agency in electronic-chemical-biological hybrid systems (20m talk + 10m discussion)
• 10:00-10:30 —Mark Bedau: Autonomous agency in minimal chemical life or “protocells” (20m talk + 10m discussion)

10:30-11:00 — coffee break

11:00-12:30 — Session 2  (chair: Simon McGregor)

• 11:00-11:45 — Randall Beer: Agency in the Game of Life (35m talk + 10m discussion)
• 11:45-12:00 — Eran Agmon: Adaptivity in a protocell model
• 12:00-12:15 — Martin Biehl: An entities first approach to defining agents as spatiotemporal patterns
• 12:15-12:30 — 15m discussion

12:30-14:00 — lunch

14:00-15:30 — Session 3  (chair: Chris Buckley)

• 14:00-14:45 — Nihat Ay: The Umwelt of an Embodied Agent (35m talk + 10m discussion)
• 14:45-15:00 —Simon McGregor: From Microstates To Individuals With Holosequences
• 15:00-15:15 — Nathaniel Virgo: The Enactive Stance
• 15:15-15:30 — 15m discussion

15:30-16:00 — coffee break

16:00-17:30 — Session 4  (chair: Nathaniel Virgo)

• 16:00-16:15 —Olaf Witkowski: Framing Cognitive Life as Information Flows
• 16:15-17:30 — Discussion

17:30-18:30 — cocktails

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