The goal of our research is to Understand the physical basis of qualia by
1) Characterising qualia structures and
2) Discovering a mapping between structures of qualia and structures derived from physical substrates
Eventually, we will dissolve the hard problem of consciousness establishing the above commutative diagram (Tsuchiya 2025 Figure 2)
We will achieve above with an interdisciplinary approach:
a) Applying big data analysis with registered reports
test quantitative theories of consciousness
b) Identifying boundaris between conscious and nonconscious (entity, states, contents)
c) Clarifying relationships between qualia and associated psychological processes
For details, see here.
tLab is trying out various options of Open Science. We believe that many options of Open Science will motivate students and early career researchers (e.g., recognition of their work through publication of posters/talks with doi), registered reports, preprints, sharing data & codes used for papers, making a subset of lab meetings and workshop available on the above link. Also see the lab's YouTube here