Hideto Tomabechi


Hideto Tomabechi is a Japanese cognitive scientist computer scientist.
He developed models for cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, mindcontroll, cognitive warfare and mathematical models for human brain information processing.

Accomplishments

Fellow, CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University. Cyber Security and Privacy Institute, Visual Intelligence Studio. Research professor, George Mason University Command Control Communications Computing Intelligence and Cyber Center. Visiting professor at Waseda University Nano&Life Research Institute.
CEO of Dr. Tomabechi Works. CEO of Cognitive Research Laboratories. Chairman of Resilence Japan Former independent consultant to the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Advisor to Kadokawa Haruki Office. The Better World Foundation and TPI educational program Japan representative. Chairman of the Japan Journalists Association. Owner of Cyzo.
Knight Grand Cross, the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. Former Delegate Japan, Dynastic Orders of Royal House of Savoy.
He is also known as a world-class guitar collector. His grandfather was Hidetoshi Tomabechi.
Recently, as a President of Japan Foreign Policy Council, he hosted two Special Lectures by Oleksii Reznikov, Former Defense Minister of Ukraine on December 15, 2023. One open lecture titled "Truth about War in Ukraine, How We Fight" and one closed lecture for members of Japanese Diet and the select members of the Japan Foreign Policy Council titled "To Prepare for Potential Crisis in Taiwan: Learn from Ukraine x Russia Cyber War". The closed lecture was held in Conference Room of the Japanese Diet.

Early life and education

Tomabechi reported having synesthesia as a child. Because of his synesthesia, his brain experienced sounds as a visual experience. This made it very easy for him to learn and remember. As a child, he was able to perfectly learn and memorize Encyclopædia Britannica, World History, and Japanese History. He was involved in music and learned to play the piano and guitar. Because of his parents' work, he traveled a lot and changed schools several times. At the age of 15, he studied university level mathematics.
He graduated from Komaba Toho High School and then joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his first degree from Sophia University, then joined Mitsubishi Real Estate. After 2 years, he won the Fulbright Scholarship, which only 1 person could receive each year. He also successfully entered Yale University's doctoral program.
Tomabechi was a Fulbright Research Scientist at Yale University and became member of Yale University Artificial Intelligence Research Center and Yale Cognitive Science Program as a research scientist. He took part in research by cognitive psychologist Roger Schank, nicknamed the father of artificial intelligence. Hideto Tomabechi's Ph.D. research topic was: Cognition Models for Language Expressions and Computational Methods. He later applied to the doctoral program at Carnegie Mellon University. He continued his research in cognitive science and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Hideto Tomabechi received his Ph.D. in the field of computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University. He was the first Japanese person to achieve a Ph.D. in this subject area, and the fourth in the world. His 1993 Ph.D. Thesis was entitled "Efficient Unification for Natural Language".

Career timeline

  • 1979: After graduating from Komaba Toho High School, entered the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Sophia University.
  • 1981: University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Communication.
  • 1983: Graduated from Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English.
  • 1985 - 1987: Research scientist/fulbright scholar, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Cognitive Science Program at Yale University.
  • 1987 - 1992: Research scientist at Center for Machine Translation Robotics Institute and Laboratory for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 1990 - 1991: Research scientist, ATR: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute Kyoto for Artificial Intelligence and speech-to-speech translation research.
  • 1993: Received his Ph.D. in the field of computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Published the Tomabechi Algorithms.
  • 1992 - 1995: Assistant Professor, Tokushima University, Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Japan. Established the Altered Consciousness Research Center in the university.
  • 1992 - 1998: VP R&D, Justsystem and Director, Justsystem Scientific Institute. Largest software maker in Japan then with 1500+ engineers. Head of Brain Research Center
  • 1995: Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Brain Function Research, Japan representative.
  • 1996 - 1998: Director, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Institute.
  • 1998: CEO of Cognitive Research Laboratories Inc.
  • 1998-2014: Japanese government projects leader, Artificial Intelligence, Architectures, Cyber Security, Molecular Biology.
  • 2000-2004: Ministry of Education, Molecular Biology and Genome Information Science Research Committee, Japan.
  • 2007: Adjunct Fellow and professor at the Cyber Security & Privacy Research Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 2014: Independent Consultant to the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
  • 2014-2019: Liaison between Carnegie Mellon University and the Japan Self-Defence Forces.
  • 2019: Representative of the Order of the Savoy Knights of Japan and Knight of the Grand Cross.
  • 2019: Research professor, visiting professor at C4I and Cyber Center Research Laboratory, George Mason University.
  • 2020: Visiting professor at Nano & Life Research Center, Waseda University. Molecular biology and nanotechnology research.
  • 2020: Chairman, Resilience Japan, LLC.
  • 2020: Government research project in Japan: Next-generation artificial intelligence that evolves with people.
  • 2022: Chairman of Japan Society for Foreign Policy.
Tomabechi focused his research areas in government projects. Tomabechi's main contributions have been leading collaborations between the Japan Self Defense Forces and Carnegie Mellon University. He has also been advising a number of governments in crypto-related policies, and advising private sector institutions around the world, including crypto exchanges and ICO companies.

Brain research, Functional Brain Science, Psychophysics, Man-machine interface

Hideto Tomabechi was also a head of JustSystems as a professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems at Tokushima University. At the time, JustSystems was Japan's largest software development / technology company.
In 1993, Hideto Tomabechi became director of the Development Department. Later, Tomabechi became director of the JustSystems Basic Research Institute, where he was head of research in brain science, psychophysics, psychology, bioinformatics, intelligent informatics, speech recognition and cognitive neuro-engineering. Tomabechi researched the basic functions of the human brain and mind. The purpose of brain and consciousness research were to develop the human machine interface. The main areas of research were altered states of consciousness, hypnosis, homeostasis, brain functions, and functions of the human mind in cyberspace. He was the leader of more than 1,500 people. As a result of the terrorist attack in Japan in 1995, the brain research results were not published because there was a risk that the data would be used by other cults.
In 1996, he became director of the JustSystems Pittsburgh Research Center. JustSystem Company then started a brain research project with Harvard Medical School Hospital in Massachusetts, where the fMRI machine was first used to study brain function. The head of this research on the Japanese side was Hideto Tomabechi.
Tomabechi describe himself as a functional brain scientist. His views on mind and brain science are based on functionalism. Functionalism is the basic scheme of cognitive science. He sees the brain as a complex system of functions organized into several structures of abstractions. He asserts that the human brain does not only exist on a biological level. He said that the higher cognitive functions of the human brain extend to the information space, also known as a mind. According to him, the human mind is a higher abstraction of the biological brain. So Tomabechi's model of the brain is an information processing system that has several abstractions. The higher the abstraction the less information we know about the given level. For example, the higher abstraction of a poodle is a dog. The higher abstraction of a dog is animal. A higher abstraction of the biological brain is the mind, which has specific functions. So brain and mind are not separate entities. Different levels of abstraction of the same system. One of Tomabechi's main areas of research was the Symbol grounding problem at Carnegie Mellon University.
Under his leadership, several artificial intelligence, virtual reality software were produced, and his research has created a new understanding in the field of brainwashing.
Dr. Tomabechi founded the Bechi Unit, the world's first virtual currency at JustSystems, based on Tomabech Algorithms.

Brainwashing, psychological manipulation, mind control and internal representation

During his brain research projects, he discovered that the human brain and mind can be manipulated extremely easily. Currently, Tomabechi is the most famous scientists in the field of human brainwashing and psychological manipulation. In the 1990s, at the University of Tokushima, he built a virtual reality computer that used hypnosis on subjects to study the memory of the human brain and mind. He discovered that memories can be easily manipulated, that memories can merge and change as a result of certain instructions. This is one explanation for why human thought can be controlled.
Tomabechi was the scientist who deprogrammed the leaders of the religious cult responsible for the terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. The cult brainwashed its people and they carried out the attacks in an influenced state of consciousness.
One of Tomabechi's basic concepts in the field of brainwashing is internal representation. Internal representation is an internal/ subjective model of reality. He claims that we humans do not see reality as it is. We are only able to see our own subjective, internal concepts of reality as reality. He believes that we ourselves, as well as people outside of us, are able to rewrite our internal representation Certain circumstances automatically create the process of brainwashing. For example, watching TV for a long time, since in this case the internal representation is filled with the information provided by the TV. Then the outside world fades away, and the brain flows into the world of TV informations. In this case, the subjective experience of reality temporarily changes, and homeostasis begins to react to a movie or show. For example, we can react to a film with an increase in heart rate, increased sweating, crying or laughing.
Tomabechi's definition of brainwashing: Brainwashing is when person A changes the internal representation of person B in such a way that it serves the interests of person A. Tomabechi began to teach the opposite of this process, the opposite of brainwashing, called deprogramming. At first, he only taught this to people working in the medical field.