the qualia journal

Monday, February 16, 2026

We don't know natural language yet. Qualia Journal

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Elon Musk predicts that we will not need natural language any more due to advancements in artificial intelligence and interfaces such as neu...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

The radio was the window to the world.

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Qualia Journal   When I was about 10 years old I started to listen to Radio Moscow and The Far East Network (FEN).   Radio Moscow was broadc...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The great maze that is the Osaka station.

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  Qualia Journal Osaka station is very complex, and it is difficult to grasp which direction you are going. I walked from Osaka station...
Friday, February 13, 2026

In the huge sandbox called The Earth

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  In the huge sandbox called The Earth Qualia Journal I must have published 100 or 200 books in Japanese. I have long stopped counting....
Thursday, February 12, 2026

You have the multiverse in your palm.

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  You have the multiverse in your palm. Qualia Journal On Tokyo subways, you see people absorbed in their smartphones. What they are doi...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Hating Albert Camus is hard to do.

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  Hating Albert Camus is hard to do. Qualia Journal I run a web-based critics group named Shirasu Front Row, inspired by the BBC radio 4...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

As a consolation I imagined the magnificence of Mt. Fuji

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  As a consolation I imagined the magnificence of Mt. Fuji Qualia Journal On the morning after a heavy snow fall, I was on the Shinkanse...
Monday, February 09, 2026

Beautiful lion, jump over the ice of frozen tears

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I was watching the figure skating team events at the 2026 Winter Olympics.  Team USA's Ilia Malinin seemed to be doing great, when he b...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

We are all in this chaos we call the world, together.

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When I awoke this morning the world was white. Walking along the Tokyo streets in my neighborhood to cast my vote in the snap General Elect...

I wish Miyazaki will win the Nobel Prize for Literature someday.

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I was attending a party at the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo, and a former student Miyazawa came to the venue. He had become slim. Miyazawa ...
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Ken Mogi, Ph.D. Neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. Author of The little book of ikigai (Awakening your ikigai in the U.S.), and The Way of Nagomi (April 2022) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ken.mogi.31 Research: The Collective Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) at The University of Tokyo: https://sites.google.com/view/collectiveintelligenceutokyo/home Twitter: @kenmogi My mission is to solve the so-called mind-brain problem. I would like to understand how our consciousness full of qualia arise from the billions of firing neurons in the brain. I research in Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo. I also teach at several universities. I write critical essays on the arts and literature. I was the conceptor for the Qualia Movement of Sony Corporation. I stayed in Cambridge, U.K. for two years to do postdoc. I have published ~ 100 books in Japanese, and The Little Book of Ikigai in English, which is to be translated into ~30 languages in 35 countries. I sometimes appear on Japanese television. My given name is Kenichiro (meaning "healthy first son"). So I am formally known as "Kenichiro Mogi". "Ken" is an abbreviation.
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