the qualia journal

In many cases, qualia provide the effective frame or rather guidance for evaluation in which one judges the value of a particular artifact. ...

When I was a kid, I used to chase butterflies in the fields and woods. Hermann Hesse, Morio Kita, Takeshi Yoro. Many people profess to hav...

As I need to do many different kinds of things during the course of day, I seem to have developed an attitude of acting based on "a few...

Petrusa has sent me some nice photos showing how people are getting enthusiastic about what is happening right now in various stadiums in So...

I am in Vancouver, Canada now. I am here for a transit on the way back to Tokyo. The ASSC 2010 conference in Toronto was very interesting. H...

The first foreign country that I visited was Canada, in the summer when I was 15 years old. Probably because of that, whenever I set my feet...

Right now I am visiting Toronto for a scientific conference. Yesterday evening, I was strolling the streets with my best friend Yoshi Tamori...

It was my second visit to the Niagara Falls. Last time, I did not go on the boat ("Maid of the Mist") to see the Great Fall from n...

In Toronto, where I am currently staying, I see many cars carrying national flags on the streets. Needless to say, they are not for the G20 ...

I am in Toronto now. Due to the G20 summit to be held in Toronto, the security at the airport was tight. There was a heavy traffic jam on th...

There are many fashion shows held every year in cities such as Paris, London, Milan, New York, and Tokyo. Some people might have a cynical a...

I have been dreaming of going to the Oze National Park, ever since my graduate school days. Dr. Tokunagawa, who was an associate professor o...

I have been to the beautiful mountain region of Oze overnight. I stayed at the TEPCO mountain lodge. What a change from my every day. Withou...

My long time pen friend (since the teens!) Petrusa lives in South Africa. And as you may well be aware, things have been getting a bit wild ...

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...