the qualia journal

The basic thesis is that memories of the past are not fixed. They transform themselves and change their shapes and appearances every time yo...

I experienced my first snow of this winter in the northern town of Yamagata, which I am visiting as one of the judges for the students' ...

The composer Tetsuji Emura is working on a composition based on my poem (see the 31st December 2006 entry of this blog.) When Tetsuji came ...

The other day I went on air as the guest in the early morning FM radio program (on J-wave) hosted by the actor Tetsuya Bessho. When I asked ...

I am now in the westernmost town of the Honshu Island, Shimonoseki. I have come here to deliver a series of lectures. This town is an unforg...

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...