the qualia journal

Many people have said various things about video games. Although there are many pros and cons, one thing is strangely missing from the curre...

It was always a treat to go to the opera at the Covent Garden during the two years I stayed in the U.K. At one time, my best philosopher fr...

I went to the municipality of Inashiki to give a public lecture on brain and mind. In Japan, railways are big. Although Inashiki is in the K...

National politics is only the nation's residents' concern, so it may not be interesting for people outside Japan but yesterday was a...

I had a public discussion with Yohei Nishimura, who is known for his arts education program for the blind. In addition, Nishimura is a famou...

Close scrutiny into history is revealing that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and then on Nagasaki three days later...

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...