the qualia journal

Things that ever happened in my life, if successfully registered, remains as the connection pattern between neurons in my brain. On the firs...

After finishing the job for the day, we went to an onsen (hot spring) place in Fukui prefecture. If you are "vetted" by the Japane...

Yesterday, during a lecture I gave at my old university, I tried to make some noise. But I utterly failed. Observing the flow of students on...

Yesterday I was talking with a couple of book editors and writers in the heart of Tokyo. One of them, a writer who helped me author several ...

Towards a more open-ended English education. Ken Mogi Sony Computer Science Laboratories kenmogi@qualia-manifesto.com It is a widely recogni...

It was heartening to observe the overwhelming response to the news of Hayabusa reentry yesterday. Hayabusa, an unmanned space mission to ret...

There are certain things that restrict the realization our potentials. The most harm is done when the restriction is imposed on each of us a...

I went to the Keio University Hiyoshi campus for our "Brain Club" meeting and lecture giving. It is always so interesting to go t...

Greg left a very interesting comment on my last entry "The secret is to hide your sources". Greg: It sounds reasonable that new di...

Albert Einstein once remarked to the effect that the secret of creativity is to hide your sources. Here, the great physicist is showing agai...

While in Ann Arbor, there was one thing that I would very much like to see. ENIAC. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Com...

My travel in the United States continues. A 30 minutes drive from the Detroit airport brought me to Ann Arbor. As the car approached the aca...

I arrived in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Athens, Ohio, on the road. We dropped by a roadside restaurant. I got into talking with John. John...

I started writing this blog on 29th October, 2004. There were 11 entries in the year 2004, 44 in 2005, 29 in 2006, 68 in 2007, 11 in 2008. T...

Yesterday evening, we were in a Denver steakhouse, and I and Mas Kondo and Nathan were discussing American politics. Mas referred to the imm...

All day, I was moving around South Dakota and Wyoming. Peter and Tony was with me, among other people. As we were driving the country road s...

Every nation has its good and bad points, and most often they co-exist. Whenever I come to the United States, I am always impressed by the b...

I arrived in the United States. Lining up at the Immigration in Minneapolis St. Paul airport, I was impressed by the sheer variety of people...

Translated from the original Japanese essay in Ken Mogi, "Ikite Shinu Watashi" ("I live, I die") published from Tokuma S...

I had an very interesting chat session with people working as volunteers in Dialogue In the Dark Tokyo for a book project. These are visual...