the qualia journal

Sony Design Key Person Interview December 2006 http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/activity/interview/mogi_01.html/

This year, I helped Sega create two games on Sony Play Station Portable based on the phenomenon of change blindness. Here's a few of the...

Some time ago, aneta made a comment on my earlier entry and asked how I divided the topics between my English and Japanese blogs. My blog i...

There are some books that I read again and again. Hyakken Uchida (1889-1971)'s "Idiot Train" (Aho Ressha) is one of my all tim...

The past is a vast stage for metamorphoses. The critic Hideo Kobayashi once remarked to Yasunari Kawabata, the author of "Snow Country...

Most of Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart's music are in major keys. His music represents optimism and belief in beauty and good. In an impressive ...

Marcel Duchamp's "readymade" is different from conceptual art. When Duchamp signed "R. Mutt" on a urinal to turn it ...

As Christmas approaches, I am fond of playing George Frideric Handel's Messiah while at work on a CD or DVD. I especially love the part ...

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...