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controller makes it possible to treat the human action not as the “motion,” which is
separable from mental and physical functions, but as the “expression” that is
inseparable from the mental and physical functions. We have begun to study
“sympathetic embodied awareness” in hand-contact improvisation, in collaboration
with Nishi [ 18 , 19 ]. Sympathetic embodied awareness is the synchronization
between mutual mental and physical functions with a sense of coexistence where
the self and others are nonseparable, and it arises during the process of the co-
creation of expression. We believe that such sympathetic embodied awareness is
closely related to the soft entrainment described in this manuscript. In the future, we
will pursue the study of the entrainment of expressions such as sympathetic
embodied awareness based on this study.

Acknowledgments This study is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26870659,
Project Research “Principal of emergence for empathetic 'Ba' and its applicability to communi-
cation technology” of RISE Waseda University, and Artifacts/Scenario/Human Institute of Waseda
University.

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