the qualia journal

Saturday, December 31, 2016

May the Force be with you, in retrospect.

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The concept of Force was perhaps the greatest invention of the Star Wars franchise, especially in retrospect from an era when artificial i...
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Consolations in the post-truth era.

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In a world dominated by fake news, it would appear that people can ignore apparent truth for their own benefit, and the vested interests of...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Against context.

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(This text was written for an art exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, October 2016) Ken Mogi Ever since the time when Thomas Hobbes ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Sustainable design.

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Since coming to Milan for Milano Salone del Mobile a couple of days ago, I have been thinking about design from time to time. I am aware ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz

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The comparison between Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz is interesting. Both candidates make remarks, which are, by today's standards of univers...
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Sunday, April 03, 2016

The tyranny of time.

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I sometimes feel that the most powerful in this world is time. People might talk about Presidents and Prime ministers as examples of the a...
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Friday, April 01, 2016

Reaction rather than action.

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You observe some phenomena in the world which seem to be against the universal values of human rights and enlightenment. Some people fear w...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

The 2016 US Presidential election. Whom would you vote for?

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So, here are the colorful candidates...in cat form : - ). Excuse my drawing. I just thought viewing these individuals in a feline conte...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Who is to judge fairness?

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In Japan, there is a series of controversial dialogues going on between the government and the media, especially the terrestrial television...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

The oppressor is oppressed.

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It is only human nature to seek freedom. In order to substantiate one’s freedom, one needs to be educated. Without learning, it is impossi...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

More fascinating than the results of the Scottish Independence Referendum.

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With the final counts of the Scottish Independence Referendum expected within the next few hours, it is only human to anticipate the resul...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Nation States

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To me, it seems apparent that the nation states are approaching the end of their "good before" period. The NSA scandal in the Uni...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Sports drinks.

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I must confess I never really liked sports drinks. I know they are isotonic and contain electrolytes, but plain water usual...
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Ken Mogi, Ph.D. Neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. Author of The little book of ikigai (Awakening your ikigai in the U.S.), and The Way of Nagomi (April 2022) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ken.mogi.31 Research: The Collective Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) at The University of Tokyo: https://sites.google.com/view/collectiveintelligenceutokyo/home Twitter: @kenmogi My mission is to solve the so-called mind-brain problem. I would like to understand how our consciousness full of qualia arise from the billions of firing neurons in the brain. I research in Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo. I also teach at several universities. I write critical essays on the arts and literature. I was the conceptor for the Qualia Movement of Sony Corporation. I stayed in Cambridge, U.K. for two years to do postdoc. I have published ~ 100 books in Japanese, and The Little Book of Ikigai in English, which is to be translated into ~30 languages in 35 countries. I sometimes appear on Japanese television. My given name is Kenichiro (meaning "healthy first son"). So I am formally known as "Kenichiro Mogi". "Ken" is an abbreviation.
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