the qualia journal

The conventional wisdom would be that if you have high intellect you would be more adaptive to a wide range of environments. Homo Sapiens ...

For some time now people have been discussing existential risks for humanity with the development of artificial intelligence. Although ther...

In the last few years I have written two books on Japan. One on ikigai and another one on nagomi. With these attempts, I have hopefully pr...

There are people who almost casually endorse mind-uploading or whole brain emulation as methods for copying self-consciousness, which is ...

One of the interesting things about Large Language Models is that there are a lot of hallucinations. The factually incorrect statements ...

The superb functionalities of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, GPT4, Bard, etc. would a puzzler even for people who have been...

The silence of NHK in the wake of the BBC documentary on Johnny Kitagawa, founder of the largest boy bands talent agency in Japan, was the g...

In December 2022, I attended the conference in the University of Cambridge Physiological Laboratory honoring the late Horace Barlow. Ther...

I went to the island of Yakushima for a few days. Yakushima, in southern Japan, is rich in pristine nature, and is a UNESCO World Heritage ...

This is Christmas day. It is big in Japan, a country where a mere 1 percent of the population are self-proclaimed Christians. The Japanes...

Japan is a country with a rich cultural tradition focused on childhood. You actually need to look no further than the obvious and ubiquito...

 When Soseki Natsume wrote the first chapter of his debut novel I AM A CAT, he probably did not expect to become a professional novelist. ...

I haven't been able to write anything in this space for a week now, due to a hectic schedule involving lectures and travel. Meanwhil...

This is an artwork that I presented at the Peace Exhibition held in Spiral, Omotesando, Japan, from18th November to 20th November.  It wa...

I was reading Soseki Natsume again. A few days ago I finished Kojin, and was moved by the impression of the brother, who was intelligent b...

The alleged falling of Russian missile in Poland is a case of ambiguities. Whether the missile was Ukrainian or Russian in origin, the l...

Numbers exist, in their natural style of exactness. We can make operations on them, and arrive at interesting relationships. As an ideolo...

When I was 10, I was in the public library, looking for books to read. One particular volume was in the shelf, and the back of it appeared...

In the last few days, some people have suggested mastodon as an alternative to twitter.  I signed up, and I like the cartoons and feels....

It is such a quantum pleasure to welcome Prof. Stuart Hameroff at the University of Tokyo Komaba campus. This would be an informal, in-depth...