Yuki Sato
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Student |
| Location | Tokyo, Japan |
| Introduction | I'm a Ph.D. student at the university of Tokyo. I'm interested in the mind-body problem, which asks how and why certain neural process give rise to subjective experiences. In solving the problem I think we have to face a fundamental circularity in exploring consciousness because one cannot but use consciousness to analyze consciousness. I try to solve these problems by considering "tool-body assimilation" or an ambiguity of our body, something that is known in German as Körper (a physical living body) and Leib (a subjectively lived body) (Thompson 2007). I research these topics by doing computer simulations and conducting real human experiments. |
| Interests | Walking, Running, Embodied cognitive science, Phenomenology, Buddhism |
| Favorite movies | Laputa: The Flying Island (Castle in the Sky) |
| Favorite books | The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson et al. |