KAKENHI Transformative Research Areas(A)2023-2028

QUALIA STRUCTURE Grant MTG

June 26-30, 2023

Provisional Program

1. Purpose:

a. To get to know what other PIs/postdocs/students are doing, which are

relevant to the Qualia Structure project

i. This time, we will feature only those relevant projects.

ii. Detailed planning of each collaborative project.

b. Consultation of data analysis & paper writing

2. Format :

a. No need to attend every session. Please choose the ones that you are

interested in and primarily involved in

b. By default, the problem setting is provided by a presenter as 15/30 min

talk (to be recorded, and shared at least internally within Q-str, via

Zoom/Youtube)

i. Planning / preliminary talk - 15 min presentation + 15 min Q&A

ii. Solid talk - 30 min presentation + 30 min Q & A

c. We’ll do this roughly at 3 slots for 30 min talks in the morning &

afternoon - then dinner

d. Speakers can be on Zoom.

3. Organisation:

a. Minimum.

b. Host will prepare the location. (Make sure to have the room

microphone for zoom recording)

c. Make sure internet connectivity

d. Whiteboard for brainstorming

e. Every one to bring drink, food, snack etc - on their own

f. Payment of travel - please use your allocated budget from 総括班or your

group

4. Zoom link (throughout the Grant MTG)

ID: 89476693721

Passcode: 663673

https://monash.zoom.us/j/89476693721?pwd=THR4ajkrajVuR0FKaklkUC9pcCsxZz09

5. Zoom background

you can download and use background image here!

6. Proposal

To better understand the bigger picture of this project and help you situate your position

in this project, we share the proposal with you all participants. We will make them public

soon. English version (translated by DeepL with some edit) , Japanese version

Mon, June 26 - Development and Philosophy

Waseda University Waseda campus

Zoom link

9:00-9:10 Nao Tsuchiya - Opening: the long-term aims of the Qualia Structure

project

9:10 – 9:40 Takami Nakano – Research plans for ASD’s qualia structure

10:10 – 10:25 So Takahashi (Oizumi lab) – Bayesian estimate of qualia structure

from single-subject limited similarity matrix

10:40 –11:10 Noburo Saji – Sound symbolism and qualia structure

(Lunch Break)

14:00 – 14:30 Yusuke Moriguchi – Development of qualia structure

15:00 – 15:30 Yuko Ishihara – Nishida on “basho”

16:00 – 16:30 Masumi Nagasaka – Transcendental Idealism and Its Criticism of

Species Relativism

3 level of share PI only (email list), Slack only, qualia-email list

* For host PIs (Please answer the following questions)

Wifi available/unavailable

room microphone available/unavailable

Tue, June 27-Emotion

Sony CSL

Zoom link

11:00 –11:30 Ai Koizumi – Fear in temporal and spatial dynamics

12:00 –12:15 Maria (Koizumi lab) – Modulating fear through respiration

12:30 –12:45 Amin (prospective Koizumi lab member) – Static magnetic

stimulation over the precuneus

(Lunch Break from 13:30-: Italian

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1316/A131603/13005475/)

15:00 – 15:15 Isabella Cahill & Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston (Tsuchiya lab) –

Color similarity judgments in depression

15:30 – 15:45 Lipeng Lin (Tsuchiya lab） – Emotion video (Cowen Keltner)

similarity experiment

16:00 - 16:15 Chuyin Zhang (Tsuchiya lab) - Comparison of similarity estimated

from free word description of videos (word2vec) and direct similarly

rating of emotion videos (Cowen Keltner)

16:30 – 16:45 Haruka Asanura (Oizumi lab) –

Emotion-horikawa/cowen-keltner.modeling

* For host PIs (Please answer the following questions)

Wifi available/unavailable

room microphone available/unavailable

Wed, June 28- fMRI

QST

Zoom link

9:00 – 11:00 Tour (Yamada Lab) - fMRI, pain stimulation, peripheral color

11:00-11:30 Masafumi Oizumi-Optimal transport and introduction of our

developed toolbox

(Lunch Break)

14:00 – 14:30 Yamada/Inoue (Yamada lab) – Review of color qualia fMRI/ Qualia

influenced by emotion

15:00 – 15:15 Park (Yamada lab) – Sound color synesthesia (cross modal qualia)

fMRI, decoding

15:30 – 15:45 Matsuyoshi (Yamada lab) – funtional PET for emotion qualia

16:00-16:30 Tadahiro Taniguch-iLanguage & qualia hypothesis

* For host PIs (Please answer the following questions)

Wifi available/unavailable

room microphone available/unavailable

Thu, June 29-Language and model

The University of Tokyo Komaba campus

Zoom link

9:00 – 9:15 Takato Horii – Acquiring Emotion representations via Self-supervised

learning

9:30 – 9:45 Qianchen (Tsuchiya lab) – Testing richness of qualia hypothesis with

massive report tasks with equated gist reports

10:00 – 10:30 Asaki Kataoka (Oizumi lab) – Object categorization in NN models

and humans

11:00 –11:15 Yuria Shimizu　(Oizumi　lab) – Towards mind uploading-relational

knowledge distillation

11:30 – 11:45 Taguchi（Oizumi lab） – Synesthesia　(plan)

(Lunch Break)

(Note that all talks in this session will be in Japanese)

14:30 – 14:45 Daisuke Hamada (Moriguchi lab) – Synesthesia

15:00 – 15:30 Yasushi Hirai　(Philosophy) - クオリアを時間で作る：ベルクソンのマ

ルチ時間スケール戦略

16:00 – 16:30 Shigeru Taguchi - TBA

* For host PIs (Please answer the following questions)

Wifi available (eduroam, utokyo-guest wifi)

room microphone available

Fri, June 30-Mathematics

The University of Tokyo Hongo campus

Zoom link

9:00 – 9:30 Alex Maier – Hypergraph & isomorphism

10:00 – 10:30 Hayato Saigo – Introduction to topos

11:00 – 11:30 Steven Phillips – Universal Languages of Thought：LoT is a topos

(Lunch Break)

14:00 – 14:30 Lonni　(Tsuchiya　lab) – Topological data analysis of similarity

15:00 – 15:30 Michiko Asano　(U of Tokyo) – Synesthesia-lecture

17:00 – 18:30 Nao Tsuchiya – Qualia Structure project this will be in Japanese

* For host PIs (Please answer the following questions)

Wifi available/unavailable

room microphone available/unavailable

Links

● Meeting Contents (Spreadsheet)

● Access Map

● Zoom links