the qualia journal

Some people are starting to predict a collapse of generative AIs, but I am perhaps more skeptical of the AI skeptics than of AI itself. Th...

Mr Musk has been a marvel for obvious reasons, but in the last few weeks his influence has gown out of proportions. The bromance with Mr D...

In board games such as chess, go, and shogi, the AIs have beaten human champions. Indeed, today, nobody is in the doubt as to whether AIs ...

As we go on the road to AGI and/or ASI, there is a genuine problem of how to measure intelligence. IQ is based on the assumption of a Gauss...

I always felt that there was something strange about the way the concept of numbers are formalized by set theory or category theory. Altho...

It is so wonderful when grownups do their best to entertain children and the inner children in our hearts. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance M...

Cunk on Life, starring Diane Morgan as the cleverly irrelevant interviewer and interrogator Philomena Cunk, is a delightful repeat of this...

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

The individualities of qualia are defined in the framework of the self, so in that sense, the uniqueness of qualia and the uniqueness of the...

I LIKE MOVIES (2022), written and directed by Chandler Levack, is a wonderfully realistic depiction of the growing pains of a young person....

AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor was a very interesting read. The authors make a salient point that compared to generati...

I went to the CALL ME THE GOAT show by Daisuke Muramoto (20th December 2024), at Tokyo's Nissho hall, a prestigious venue which has be...

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...