the qualia journal

I've been seeing lots of British comedies. Among the many excellent entries into the genre, I think "Little Britain" is truly ...

Mr. Seiichiro Watanabe, Founder and CTO of NuCore Technology Inc. based in San Jose was the guest in this week's shoot of "The Prof...

Yesterday was the presentation and examinations day for the masters degree candidates in the Department of Computation Intelligence and Syst...

Batting centers are popular in Japan. The other day I was watching a T.V. program about a man who was the "home run champion" in a...

I did very well at school, and teachers, seeing that I was scientifically oriented, recommended that I go to a medical school in the future....

Currently I am reading "Kant. A Very Short Introduction" by Roger Scruton (Oxford University Press), and found the following passa...

Janus 21 pp. 4-9 SEE THE WORLD THROUGH THE BRAIN’S EYES | Marleen Wynants enquires on the unusual phenomenon of Change Blindness with neuros...

Warning: What follows should be read in the spirit of a light-hearted joke and not as a serious report of my medical condition! Recently, I ...

So there is this craze about global warming. The former U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore is enlightening the public ("An Inconvenien...

There are crazy things in life. If there are two kinds, pro-life crazy and anti-life crazy, I firmly believe that the former will eventually...

I was reading a recent book by Genichiro Takahashi ("The Novels of Japan--A hundred years of solitude", written in Japanese, trans...

Interaction Simultaneity The Origin of Consciousness blog 31st January 2007 http://origin-of-consciousness.blogspot.com/ 　

I met with one of Japan's most popular "idol" of the time, Eriko Sato who have starred in some films e.g., "Cutie Honey...

When I was a kid, the first snow of the year would always fall sometime in December in the Tokyo suburb where I lived with my parents. Looki...

I don't claim to know what a "classic" really entails, but it appears to me that it is something that provides one with new fi...

The novelist Hyakken Uchida ("Idiot Train", see the 29th December 2006 entry of this blog) was wont to say "being hungry is o...

I met with the photographer Gregory Colbert at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo. It was a wonderful opportunity to discuss his unique approach...

In a recent magazine article (in "Kangaeru Hito" ("The Thinker"), a quarterly published from Shinchosha, Tokyo), Yasujir...

Earlier, I wrote about the recurring dream in which Godzilla would appear as a menacing presence. As a child, I was not aware of the atomic ...

Violence brings only sorrow into this world, but wrath and indignation, when managed and directed properly, can sometimes generate good and ...