the qualia journal

Garigarikun is an ice cream bar brand popular in Japan. A few days ago, after the usual rounds of jogging in the park, I felt like eating on...

In an artistic piece of sublime joy, you can sometimes discern a hint of pain. Take J.S. Bach's Air on the G string for example. The mus...

Despite the ups and downs, I have kept my habit of going for a run in the park forest near my house. A few months ago, I sprained my right a...

The emergence of a new contagious disease makes one ponder on his own mortality. Humans today tend to think that they are to live "fore...

I have been to Salzburg quite a few times, visiting my very good friend Gustav Bernroider at the University of Salzburg. The stroll in the g...

One of my best friends, Ken Shiotani, went to University of Tokyo for many years. First he finished the master's course at the mathemati...

I have some practical recollections to catch up after this long pause in writing. It was back then. I was there. I visited Scotland in June ...

One of my favorite Picasso pieces is to be found in the Guggenheim museum in New York. My encounter took place almost a decade and half ago....

It has been sometime since I made the last entry into this blog. I don't know how this long absence has taken place. I have been busy, g...

Some years ago, I was just starting my research career in the brain sciences. I was attending a series of international conferences in Iizuk...

Things that ever happened in my life remains as the connection pattern between neurons in my brain. On the first day of my elementary school...

I had only the faintest idea, if any, what Salt Lake City was actually like. Naturally I remembered some fragmentary scenes from the 2002 wi...

I was in Kobe, delivered a lecture at an academic conference. After the sessions, I found myself near the Rokko mountains. The spring was fi...

The natural history of contingency by Ken Mogi One of the deepest joys in life is to understand more fully the world in which we find oursel...

A few days ago I caught a cold. Walking around in a T-shirt was not such a good idea. They say the cold affects your stomach this year. (Whe...

One of the good things living in Tokyo brings into life is the experience at fine sushi restaurants. Sushi might have transformed itself int...

During the new year holidays, I had a chance to glance at some of the old photos at my parents' house. The old times certainly existed, ...

I was invited to sit as one of the guest judges at the 58th Red & White Year-end Song Festival hosted by NHK, performed live and broadc...

In early December, I traveled to Seattle, U.S.A. and interviewed Ichiro Suzuki of Seattle Mariners for "The Professionals" program...

I am not sure if there's really such a word, but I am coining it anyway. I am going to write about the rain reaction. I am fond of joggi...