CRSy25 - Neuro_Cybernetics at Scale

This year’s Champalimaud Research Symposium, Neuro-Cybernetics at Scale, will explore how behavior emerges through complex feedback loops across neural circuits, bodies, and varied environments. While reductionist approaches have brought deep insights into individual components, understanding behavior as it unfolds in the real world demands a shift toward systems-level thinking—across scales, disciplines, and modalities.

The symposium draws inspiration from the recent advances in AI and machine learning, where scaling has unlocked unprecedented performance. We believe neuroscience may be approaching a similar inflection point. By convening researchers in experimental neuroscience, robotics, machine learning, control theory, and theoretical neuroscience, we aim to explore how ideas of scaling and feedback can shape the future of systems neuroscience.

This years theme allows for the perfect exploration of automation and randomization in electronic music composition thus mimicing the process of cybernetics.