Qualia Manifesto

The Qualia Manifesto

Home Page of the Qualia Movement

　(webpage initiated on 26th November 1998)

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Mission Statement

Qualia are the subjective sensory qualities like "the redness of red" that accompany our perception. Qualia symbolize the explanatory gap that exists between the subjective qualities of our perception and the physical system that we call the brain. Elucidating the neural basis of qualia is central in understanding the principles of the "integrated parallelism" in cortical information processing. The so-called "binding problem" is a typical aspect of the above mentioned "integrated parallelism". The study of qualia is important not only in understanding the neural basis of our conscious mental experience but also in bridging the gap between the "two cultures" (C.P. Snow). The Qualia Manifesto is a mission statement that puts qualia at the center of scientific and cultural movement in years to come.

Last updated 6th April 2008

What are Qualia?(Summary of the Book "Qualia and the Brain")

This page is maintained by Ken Mogi, Ph.D, who works

at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo. Ken Mogi is also a visiting professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology,

and lectures "The Brain and the art" course weekly at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

The Qualia Journal blog records the acitivities and musings of Ken Mogi

Ken Mogi profile at blogger

The Origin of Consciousness blog is a collection of thoughts on the eigma of the mind.

The Central Dogma in cognitive neuroscience:

Neurons make qualia make consciousness.

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