the qualia journal

When we are talking about contingencies, we should always remember that it is ultimately the nature of cognition of each subject that determ...

Contingencies, the mixture of predictability and unpredictability in the occurrence of events, has an important significance in nurturing ou...

Reflecting on my own life, I find that people are often mirrors on which I see my own reflection. This particular viewpoint, obviously, is r...

In my opinion, the "healthiness test" for your brain is simple. "Are you enjoying the uncertainties that you encounter in lif...

It is with a deep sadness to acknowledge that the "operating system" of Japan is most probably out of date. The nation is lagging ...

I appear on the radio program "All Night Nippon Sunday" from time to time. Yesterday evening, I went to the radio station in centr...

After the Keio University lecture yesterday, several students came up to me and chatted. One of them was a graduate student studying compute...

I gave two 90 minutes lectures at Keio University Hiyoshi campus. The audience was the graduate students and general public, about 200 in al...

On the way back to Tokyo airborne, and onto central Tokyo by car, I was continuously writing a series of essays which unfortunately met thei...

On the last day in London, we met with Dominique O'Brien, who became eight times World Memory Champion. The current Champion, Ben Pridmo...

I did not "agree" with the tightly controlled process of learning how to drive that is normal in my native country. So I dropped o...

Walking along the London streets, even for a short time, is always an uplifting experience. People has identified New York city in the Unite...

I have moved to London yesterday night. When I awoke in the car, people were shouting "Abbey Road!" A surprise encounter with the ...

I stayed in Cambridge for two years from 1995 to 1997, and have been visiting regularly since. I know the streets in out. Memories would flo...

There's something about U.K. that resonates deep with me. Maybe it is the unpretending attitudes of people. Perhaps the spirit of unders...

On the plane to London Heathrow, I had to write several essay manuscripts. Theoretically, it was possible to do them after arrival, and make...

The reader of this blog might recall that recently I was stranded in Munich for 4 days due to the volcanic ash cloud crisis. Here I go to Eu...

When you are a child, there are many things that leave an impression on you. As you get older, you grow out of these things. But then one da...

As I walk home at night, these days, I notice that the moon is getting fatter every day. What a dramatic change! To think that shifts in th...

Even if a book sells a million copies, it would at best reach a very small proportion of the population. The same is true for a mega-hit fil...