We welcome the opportunity to comment on Teehan's article, which we found very relevant to the scientific study of agency detection. We appreciate the paper's main idea of reconceptualizing the concepts of Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR)—in general—and agency detection—in particular—as an entangled embodied interaction rather than a representational process. Our general impression is that the enactive approach, as compared to the classic account, provides a much more holistic picture of how cognition works, especially whenever we detect an agent in our vicinity. However, as with every such “big” picture, the question naturally arises how to derive testable predictions from the framework presented. Here we briefly discuss this issue and address two related matters: our ideas regarding studying the embodied and situated aspects of agency-attunement and the use of virtual reality as a research tool with high(est) ecological validity.
