A co-evolution plan

The director’s work is busier than I imagined, and more unlike a scientist’s work than I expected, so I have been struggling since February and could not update the site much. Apparently some people do read it. Sorry.

Meanwhile an Alzheimer’s paper that I think is genuinely innovative has finally been published. In parallel we are discussing, with the Faculty of Education, the School of Health Sciences, and the university’s special-needs school, what I think a good society looks like when it is supported by science, especially evolution and neuroscience.

They have passion and ideas, and we learn a great deal from other faculties and schools. It is a little self-serving to say so, but I think they also learned from BRI’s power. Running a completely new attempt alongside the director’s job is hard, yet being director also makes some things easier. Prof. Tainaka, who is also deputy director, supported us positively and sometimes took the lead, so we at least reached grant applications that could make the idea real. I look forward to something being funded and actually implemented in society.

Universities and the world do not automatically back excellent work, or even things that obviously ought to be done. In the end you have to push a little unreasonably, with heat and execution. The world follows the tracks you leave. That is what I believe.