the qualia journal

As artificial intelligence systems advance and execute computations for humans, there are arguments that human jobs would be lost. We woul...

I was in a university lecture room, and waiting for Kim Jong Un. There was tension around, with many security guards.  Among the student...

  I attended the talk by Christof Koch at #SfN2023. A great take on the state of the art on the neural correlates of consciousness. Discussi...

In the contemporary world, the greatest divide would not be between the liberals and conservatives. It would be between people who believe...

  One of the most important things in consciousness studies would be to realize that you don't understand consciousness.  It is too easy...

  Conventional arguments about free will seems to be missing one fundamental aspect, which is the essentially non-existent nature of the fut...

There is a fundamental problem in the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).  It is possibl...

(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...