the qualia journal

As a kid I used to stay in the blanket, especially on a cold morning. I would wrap myself entirely in the warm cloth, with only my head stic...

I feel as if I am in a period of inner transformation. I try to do things that have not been possible so far, and shy away from things that ...

I love the Beatles. The definition of my heaven is when I drive in the U.K. countryside, listening to a Beatles album, preferably St. Pepper...

I had several dialogues with the artist Shusaku Arakawa in 2006, including one television shoot. The location for the TV dialogue was in th...

It is interesting that intellectuals who are not ostensibly religious are drawn to the life of Jesus Christ. Oscar Wilde, whose life on the ...

Sanshiro is one of my beloved novels by Soseki Natsume. As I was transferring data into my new notebook computer, I had some time, and was r...

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People have this idea that autobiographies are written by people who have "done it", whose merits and achievements have been more ...

When I was a kid, one of the things that I admired was "guts". It was in part influenced by pieces of the Japanese manga. For exam...

Although less than 1% of Japanese are Christians, the custom of Christmas festivities and present givings are avidly followed here, especial...

Due to the increase of comment spams, the comments to this blog are now moderated. They would appear after I review and approve them. Thank ...

One is naturally shy of exhibiting one's weakness. It might be a point of attack for the enemy, making us vulnerable in the world when a...

While I was studying in Cambridge, I was invited to my mentor Horace Barlow's Xmas party once. It was a small and cozy party, with Horac...

When I went to Cambridge, U.K. for the first time some 15 years ago, I was fascinated by the trees. Walking along the path in Jesus Green, m...

Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, at the end of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent....

Akira Wani, now teaching at the law department of University of Tokyo, is a good friend of mine since senior high school. He is a legendary ...

In the Brain Club (our research group's journal club) yesterday, Tetsuro Ishikwa, (Ph. D student) introduced Shurger et al. (2009). Thei...

I think it was youtube which changed my attitude towards the portable modalities. Used to be that I listened to the music on the portable au...

The Wuthering Heights was one of the novels that I read in my teens in English language as I built up my linguistic ability and sensitivitie...

It seems that something in me has sparked recently. I simply cannot stop reading. I get on the subway just because I can read in the car. I ...