the qualia journal

I had a wonderful conversation with Mr. C.W. Nicol, the famed writer who resides in the Kurohime district, Nagano prefecture, Japan. Mr. Nic...

Partly because my best friend Ken Shiotani is one, I seem to be drawn to a fat man. Although when I first met him when I was 18, he was rath...

I made an entry about the fat ones in yesterday's blog. Even before I get the feedbacks (as the publication was delayed due to my stay i...

On the night that I became aware of the quality of the train noise, clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack, I did not actually know ...

Although the fact that our phenomenal experience is "composed" of qualia should be evident from infancy, it is actually difficult ...

Depending on the traditions in each culture, the significance of a particular physical entity becomes different. The Japanese has always exh...

In another essay of The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon choses to discuss the cute things in life: "Cute things. Face of a child painted on a...

Partly because its nature is bestowed with much variety and the seasons are full of subtle changes, Japan has been a nation where its people...

The beauty of appreciating a work of art, or a natural scene, or anything that you can experience in this world, is that you can do so witho...

When we turn our attention to the role of qualia played within the brain's system, "communication" also surfaces as a major th...

From the evolutionary perspective, there might be functional significance in the fact that qualia are private in nature and yet support our ...

The fact that certain qualia can arise only from experiencing the real thing in the immediacy of actual presence does not, of course, preclu...

The fact that certain sets of qualia can be experienced and appreciated only in directly facing the actual work of art can be called the ...

I once had an opportunity to admire at leisure the "Girl with a pearl earring" painting in its home of the Mauritshuis in The Hagu...

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...