the qualia journal

To express oneself, in particular as a matter of being understood by the widest audience possible and giving pleasure to many, is a hard uph...

Nowadays Japanese manga and anime enjoy much popularity and a high respectability. Manga and anime are considered the primary cultural expor...

When I traveled to Korea a few weeks ago, I had the joy of being in a land where I found myself helpless as a three year old child. Hangul, ...

My native language is not English. I started to learn English only at the age of 12. Then my struggle began, as English and Japanese are two...

Now I am staying in the Kayoutei onsen ryokan in Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa prefecture. This ryokan is famed for its magnificent breakfast, so...

One of the things that we sometimes fail to recognize in life is that in this world, the time passes. In a seemingly stationary world, as is...

Butterflies and moths can be distinguished by a number of ways. One of them is their flight patterns. Butterflies fly in a straightforward w...

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 ...