the qualia journal

I had a dialogue with the artist Rei Naito in the Bungeishunju building in Kioicho. The diaglogue will be published in "Bungakukai...

The long awaited Apple iTunes Music store opened here in Japan at last! I checked the site from my iTunes the first thing in the morning. Th...

I went to Dublin only once. I attended a conference organized by Tony Veale of the University College Dublin. When I and Yoshihide Tamori en...

Piet Hut came to visit our lab for the second time. Dr. Fumihide Tanaka of Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories was also present. We disc...

The French film "March of the Penguins" directed by Luc Jacquet is being shown in Japan. I went to the preview show. Although the ...

When I was a kid, August was a special month. You had one month long vacation, in which you would go to places. Sometimes I would climb moun...

As a perfect Wagnerite I could not miss the New National Theater (in Tokyo) production of "Get back the Ring!". It was termed a ...

Piet Hut's hightlights. The famed astrophysicist Piet Hut, who recently came to visit me , has a log of the highlights of his life. He ...

I used to have a very beautiful copy of "Dubliners" by James Joyce. I purchased it in a second-hand bookshop in Cambridge, U.K., w...

We sometimes have earthquakes in Japan. In Tokyo, we have not had a really bad one in my personal history since birth. They say we may have ...

When I was at graduate school, I read this book 10 times. It was that good. Several years have passed since I last read it, but I still reme...

The other day (30 June) I was attending the "Characters Forum" of Tokyo Foundation, and I started to draw illustrations on my note...

I went to the southern island of Kyushu to give a lecture in Prof. Shigeki Watanuki's class. I talked about qualia, contemporary art, un...

It is always good to look back on your childhood and re-experience the uneasiness and clumsiness that inexperienced life necessarily involve...

One of the most interesting aspects of the world we live in is the coupling between individuality and universality. When we think in terms o...

The encounter with Ozu's Tokyo Story had a particular significance in my life. I was in the graduate school in the physics department o...

I gave a talk in the 14th Shigeo Miki memorial symposium held in Geidai (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). I talked about t...

In our lab meeting Thursday I discussed the concept of the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC). Proposed in a series of papers by Franc...

It was Laurent Anzai Momy who introduced me to Moichi Kuwahara. Moichi produced the mega-hit album by Y.M.O. (Yellow Magic Orchestra) "...

I had a dialogue with the famed dramatist Oriza Hirata in the Setagaya Public Theatre in Tokyo. Oriza is known for such pieces as "Tok...