the qualia journal

(This is an updated and longer text based on an earlier tweet) From the cultural point of view, the disservice inflicted by Johnny & ...

　 How is intelligence nurtured? 　 Most of the time, we are protected by too many things, to reach the truth of this world barehanded. Ab...

On the web, I have come across some arguments concerning whether the discussions on AI risks are culturally conditioned. Specifically, the...

I went to see Barbie in the very first show in central Tokyo. It was a wickedly sophisticated treatment of many cultural assumptions about...

Ken Mogi is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo. Ken Mogi is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories,...

Born and raised in Japan, I am naturally aware of the destruction that nuclear weapons bring about, as exemplified by the tragedies in Hiro...

I came across a great shooting scene from Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017). In it Ms Gerwig was laughing, exhibiting her genuine good nat...

When Shohei Ohtani hits a home run, his team mates would put a kabuto helmet. While this is a symbol of the samurai warrior, many Japanese ...

On the flight back from Vancouver to Tokyo after the TED conference, I watched the film M3GAN. Although I knew the hype about the film, I ...

I am attending #TED2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Despite competitions from likes of Lex Fridman podcast, TED still shines as one of the wor...

For now, Artificial Intelligence systems seem to be developed as stand-alone entities, while historically,  evolution of biological specie...

In Japan, for now, wherever you go, there are a lot of people. On the Shinkansen train, on the streets, at tourist attractions, everyone eve...

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...