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Saturday, March 21, 2020

The enigma of the subdued coronavirus outbreak in Japan.

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The coronavirus outbreak has entered Japan some time ago, but as of today, there is a strange and almost eerie atmosphere of calm in t...
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Sunday, February 09, 2020

Life hack of putting vegetables into cup noodles.

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I love cup noodles, but the problem is, well, you know it, you cannot claim it to be super healthy to indulge in the joy of eating a b...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

The strategic naivety of purportedly believing in the possibility of artificial consciousness.

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Advancements in artificial intelligence is surely impressive, but AI fails short of reproducing one of the (or, arguably, the ) most ...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Spark joy is wider than decluttering.

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Marie Kondo's spark joy meme was a great inspiration for many Japanese. In particular, the fact that she was able to do a popula...
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Friday, August 30, 2019

Elon Musk's Space Sumo.

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Ken Mogi "I am afraid I have to tell you that there is a serious problem with your Mars Mission," said Mack with a lon...
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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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