the qualia journal

  My new book Think Like a Stoic is out today. As someone based in Japan, this is a love letter to the western canon of stoic thinking, toge...

  We don't know Haruki Murakami yet. I recently reread Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood in an excellent English translation by the J...

Some people are starting to predict a collapse of generative AIs, but I am perhaps more skeptical of the AI skeptics than of AI itself. Th...

Mr Musk has been a marvel for obvious reasons, but in the last few weeks his influence has gown out of proportions. The bromance with Mr D...

In board games such as chess, go, and shogi, the AIs have beaten human champions. Indeed, today, nobody is in the doubt as to whether AIs ...

As we go on the road to AGI and/or ASI, there is a genuine problem of how to measure intelligence. IQ is based on the assumption of a Gauss...

I always felt that there was something strange about the way the concept of numbers are formalized by set theory or category theory. Altho...

It is so wonderful when grownups do their best to entertain children and the inner children in our hearts. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance M...

Cunk on Life, starring Diane Morgan as the cleverly irrelevant interviewer and interrogator Philomena Cunk, is a delightful repeat of this...

  Ken Mogi is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo. Ken Mogi is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratorie...