the qualia journal

Later in the evening, I came to Hakata, the central city in my mother's native area of northern Kyushu. Although I am a frequent visitor...

When I was a kid, I used to climb mountains a lot. Japan is a very mountainous country, and it is not difficult to find a mountain nearby an...

Yesterday was the girls' day (Hina-Matsuri) in Japan. When I was a boy, because boys will be boys, and I wanted to follow suit, I preten...

The Japanese are famously crazy about the cherry blossoms. When the season comes (usually from the end of March to the beginning of April, d...

My best friend and great producer Moichi Kuwahara has kindly put my tweet alongside a nice photo. http://twitter.com/kenmogi http://twitpic....

I came across an interesting concept recently. Muscle confusion. The idea is to expose the body to the greatest variety of movements, interv...

A few days ago, I tweeted: Creativity is not proportional to intelligence per se. Creativity is proportional to the courage to break from th...

Traveling is quite important in life, as staying in one place and a single context restricts how one's brain and body function. In an er...

When you encounter a new idea, the influence is often brutal. It takes possession of your whole system, and violent reactions sometimes foll...

I had some glasses of really good sake last night, and got drunk. I was with my best friends. We just finished a very strenuous work day. A ...

I went to the NTT R&D forum 2010 . I met with several very interesting people, and encountered exciting lines of research. It is intere...

I normally do not watch television much. It is not that I do not care for good programs. I simply do not have the time. There was a testimon...

Whether a man has a free will or not is a great topic of debate in philosophy and science. No matter what kind of position one takes, it is ...

I don't know about other countries, but I do feel that what is undeniably lost in this country is the will and ability to see and endeav...

We all live in the contemporary world, and are bombarded with miscellaneous information every day. While interacting with the immediate envi...

I have started a new series in my twitter. The first two entries are: Have you heard of the "flowers in the storm" metaphor? Life ...

The Vancouver Olympics brings excitement and sweet memories. When I was 9, the Olympic games were held in Sapporo. The 70 m ski jump was a d...

I went to a wonderful performance of Siegfried at the New National Theater. Wagner took years to complete this magnum opus. As I reflected o...

The qualia journal. Phase 1. From 9th October 2004 to 17th February 2010. Now I am soul searching.

The healthiness of one's brain can pretty well be judged by whether one embraces the uncertainties in life with pleasure. A kid has grea...