the qualia journal

When I was an undergraduate student studying Physics in Tokyo, I took a particular joy in the calculation of complex mathematical formula. I...

The Qualia Show video release A man dances to the a cappella music performed by a girls chorus on a street in Osaka http://www.youtube.com/w...

In life, it often so happens that the origins of things are concealed, even when they are important. The underlying reason is often psycholo...

When I was a junior high school student, I was elected the President of the Student's Union. The election result itself was a surprise. ...

When I think of the difficult conceptual problems still rampant in the world, I feel as if only a properly managed insanity can lead to a br...

Feeling as if eternal The Origin of Consciousness blog 2nd January 2007 http://origin-of-consciousness.blogspot.com/ 　

The Japanese New Year is strongly touched with a sense of renewal. The idea is that everything is renewed and acquire a new face, refreshed ...

Earlier this year, the famed composer Tetsuji Emura has kindly suggested that I collaborate with him for his composition commissioned by the...

I grew up in a Tokyo suburb where there were still rice fields and forests. One day, when I was about 10 years old or so, I went on a small ...

I opened my channel "The Qualia Show" in youtube. The mission statement submitted said: Mainly funny things that came my way. Prom...

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...