Yasuhide Yamanouchi — Articles
English introductions to the institute’s research, essays, and archived publications. Japanese originals and downloadable materials are linked from each entry.
Searle’s Misguided Letter to Derrida
Yasuhide Yamanouchi examines the dispute between John Searle and Jacques Derrida in relation to Socio-Infonomics and postmodern thought. The essay discusses difficulties in philosophical communication, differing views of modernity, and the interpretation of the Searle–Derrida debate.
Categories of Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
Yasuhide Yamanouchi considers the stage reached by AI after the public release of ChatGPT. Using a naturalistic approach, he distinguishes general AI and superintelligence, human intelligence, vertebrate intelligence, and current AI systems, focusing on vertebrate intelligence as a key point of comparison.
Rutger Bregman’s Humankind: Reading Notes and Excerpts
Reading notes on the Japanese edition of Rutger Bregman’s Humankind, translated by Kafuko Nonaka and published by Bungeishunju in 2021. The discussion considers Bregman’s argument for reorganizing society around a more positive view of human nature, and its biological and evolutionary foundations. The Japanese original includes selected excerpts.
A Paleontological Analogy for Social Thought: Thinking through Analogy
This essay explores analogies between social and natural sciences. It considers whether ideological components can be treated as modules comparable to genes, and how changing social environments shape combinations of ideas. It also reflects on the limits and difficulties of transferring models across disciplines.
Takeyuki Hida and the Stochastic Turn in Socio-Infonomics
Yasuhide Yamanouchi recalls Takeyuki Hida’s influence on the institute’s mathematical approach. The essay discusses stochastic processes, algebraic methods, white-noise analysis, and the work of Paul Lévi and Benoît Mandelbrot as resources for understanding common patterns across natural and social phenomena.
Research Papers in the Journal of the Infosocionomics Society
Yasuhide Yamanouchi introduces two papers: one on power laws and stable distributions in the linguistic space of social networking services (2016), and another on changing conceptions of modern humanity in the world system (2017). The Japanese post supplies the original references.
Interviews in Keizaikai
A three-part interview series with Yasuhide Yamanouchi, reprinted from Keizaikai beginning with issue No. 1003. It examines cyberattacks as a security challenge, the responsibilities of governments and companies, and the implications of Japan–US cooperation on cyber defense.
An Imagined Interview: The Information Society and WikiLeaks
This essay uses an imagined interview to explore WikiLeaks, the circulation of information, and the changing relationship between state power and networked society. It presents a discussion of information politics rather than a transcript of an actual interview.
The Information Society and the World System: Locating Modernization
A paper by Yasuhide Yamanouchi on the place of the information society within the world system and modernization. The Japanese archive links to the original document.
Security Legislation and Collective Security
Yasuhide Yamanouchi discusses Japan’s security legislation, collective self-defense, deterrence, and the realist perspective in international relations. This is a historical opinion essay, and its original wording and chronology are retained on the Japanese page.