the qualia journal

This was a work of revelation and inspiration in many senses. In parts, it read like Yoko Ono's wonderful Grapefruit. Images far reach...

  Civil War produced by A24. To my surprise and delight, the film was totally different from the cleverly crafted trailer I have seen earlie...

The Vegetarian by Han Kang is a work of precision and structure. Although the novel deals with emotionally charged difficulties of contemp...

  I have been having a rather uncertain time figuring out how to make use of my instagram account. https://www.instagram.com/qualiaken/ Post...

  As Bergson noted things we are accustomed to tend to be processed unconsciously. A newborn would have maximum consciousness as everything ...

In my humble opinion, President Joe Biden has already done a great job, not only through serving his country as a politician, especially d...

Listening to the Presidential debate, I have the feeling that the format is quite logically constructed, almost like a matrix of relevant ...

  As humans go out into space and attain cosmic consciousness, novel and interesting questions could be found. Finding questions could be po...

  Recently, I have discovered a truly remarkable evidence to suggest that the whole universe, including my thoughts and consciousness, are r...

I have finished watching episodes 1-8 of the 3 Body Problem on Netflix, based on the novel by Cixin Liu. The most interesting idea of the ...

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...