the qualia journal

As a child, I wanted to become a scientist, nothing else. The image of two mad-haired men standing in front of the blackboard, scribing equa...

The Tale of Genji is a Japanese classic written by a noble woman (Lady Murasaki) at the beginning of the 11th century. Acclaimed as a maste...

People usually think that the whole point of memory, especially that of episodes, is in the fact that it can be explicitly recalled. Unremem...

With long life comes the merit of maturity. The brain never stops learning. The way the neural circuits are updated is very sustainable and ...

At the end of the year 2001, I found myself in Haneda airport which serves the metropolitan Tokyo. I just came back on an early morning flig...

I never thought of Tokyo as a beautiful city. Even the masterful touch of Ozu films such as "Tokyo Story" can barely turn it into ...

My native tongue is Japanese. I started learning English at school when I was 12. I read the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy when I wa...

Lecture Records "Qualia and Contingency" Ken Mogi Sony Computer Science Laboratories & Tokyo Institute of Technology Talk giv...

Google has been one of the great things that happened in our life. That's probably every person's fair assessment. Why it is so, how...

"The Professional Way" (the same URL translated into English by the google engine) is a weekly T.V. program broadcast by NHK , J...

I keep my blog in Japanese more frequently than this one. The Japanese blog is fairly popular, with > 5000 visitors every day. Here's...

Here I annouce a new blog titled "The origin of consciousness" http://origin-of-consciousness.blogspot.com/ The first entry is Ori...

It has been sometime since my last entry into this journal. Lazy boy! (As a matter of fact, I am keeping my blog in Japanese with punctuali...

I was not well. I had a cold, and yet kept drinking with my friends until the small hours. The folly had a destructive effect the next day. ...

Abstracts presented by our research group at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2005 （Washington D.C., U.S.A.) http://apu.sfn.org/a...

Papers presented at ICONIP 2005 (Taipei, Oct 30 to Nov 2 2005) http://cnn.cn.nctu.edu.tw/iconip2005/ Omata, K. and Mogi, K. Robust phoneme p...

The other day I went to a studio in central Tokyo and had my photos taken. Mr. Yamada of Bungeishunju publishing was with me. These photos w...

Autumn is probably the best season of the year for me. I particularly love the sight of the Japanese pampas grass swaying to and flo in the ...

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...