the qualia journal

I was having a late night (or rather, an early morning) chat with two editors, Takeshi Masuda of Chikuma Shobo, and Kanako Oshima of Gentosh...

The Chichu art museum on the island of Naoshima is celebrating its first anniversary. The director Yuji Akimoto came to give a lecture in my...

Piet Hut of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton came to visit us. First we met near Waseda University. Piet gave a guest lecture i...

I went to see the rehearsal of Brahms's 2nd concert by Seiji Ozawa. It was interesting to observe how Ozawa tried to overcome the ill-po...

I had a chat with the famed music critic Reiko Yuyama. She gave a few funny tips on which Sushi restaurant to go to in Tokyo. (She recently ...

On Sunday, I went to Heirin-ji temple to take a walk. In the Kanto plane, there are certain types of natural forest where I used to look for...

Soon after I came back from my California trip, one phrase started to ring in my head. "Language policy". I did not know where it ...

Recently my best friend, Takashi Ikegami reminded me about the value of craziness. We must defend it, nurture it, or otherwise we perish. In...

Here's my new year's resolution.

The Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2004 in San Diego was again a Disneyland for neuroscientists. There were well more than ten thousand pa...

Right now I am in San Diego for the Society for Neuroscience meeting. We are presenting the following works this year. http://www.qualia-...

I had a long conversation with the young Zen priest, Jikisai Minami in a temple in central Tokyo. Jikisai is known for his books on the Budd...

The painted sculpture of priest Muchaku by Unkei (1148-1123) is one of the most highly valued Buddhist sculptures from the Kamakura Period...

Ever since the birth of modern art with Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" in 1917, it has been tainted with contextualism. The idea ...

by Ken Mogi (2004) Here's the text http://www.qualia-manifesto.com/qualiafundamentalism.txt Originally published in AXIS ma...

I guess every good citizen on average is now bombarded with 100s of SPAMs each day. Information used to be blessing. Now it is poisonous. Ap...

SYMPOSIUM INTERDISCIPLINAIRE FRANCO-JAPONAIS, 10-13 octobre 2004 - Digital art : new technology, creativity and society - / - arts numeriqu...

My latest book. The Brain and Imagination. (Shinchosha, Tokyo). Released on 24th September, 2004. Based on the results of modern brain s...

Just been to Paris for two days. I visited the open house of Sony Computer Science Lab Paris branch. Apart from scientific interests, the ...

I've been thinking about creating a blog for some time. Here I am. I would like to cast a cognitive net over the world I live in, grasp ...