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The "Professor" and "Hakase" - the first life discussion by two longtime friends

The "Professor," 坂本龍一, took techno music by storm in the 80s.
Since then, he has always been at the forefront of his field, but in recent years he has released a series of sounds that incorporate natural "noise" in contrast to electronic music.
On the other hand, Shinichi Fukuoka, a.k.a. "Hakase," a molecular biologist, has been pursuing elemental reductionist science symbolized by DNA analysis, but has questioned this methodology and established his own philosophy of life, dynamic equilibrium theory, which views life phenomena as a single "flow.

The two have been friends for 20 years and have experienced various setbacks. They have been friends for 20 years, and discuss their paths to the present day through various setbacks.
In this time of dramatic change in our view of life and death since the Corona pandemic, we would like to turn our attention to making our lives brighter.
The two men, who are well versed in music, art, philosophy, science, and many other fields, have reached a conclusion after repeated dialogues.

From the text]

You don't know where the goal is until you take a step forward. One day, I had a moment when I realized, "Oh, this is the goal," and I could see the next mountain, which I had not seen before. I thought, "This is not the end, I have to go there next." ─ 坂本龍一

The finite nature of individual life is the motivation for all cultural, artistic, and academic activities. Life shines because it is finite. In this way, the whole living system has continued, and can continue to continue.

[Contents]
How to Describe the World - On the Occasion of Publication
PART1 Born from Breaking - Common Point of Music and Science
PART2 Circulating Music, Circulating Life
Extra Edition What the Pandemic Asks Us

PART1 and PART2 are a collection of conversations that were broadcast on NHK E-TV's "SWITCH Interview Tatsujin Tatsujin" (June 3, 2017), including unaired parts, with significant additions and corrections. .

Author's Profile]
坂本龍一 (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Musician, born in Tokyo in 1952, formed "YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA (YMO)" in 1978. In 2021, he announced that he had rectal cancer. In 2021, he announced that he had rectal cancer and released the album "12" in January 2023, which contains songs he sketched as if he were writing a diary during his battle with the disease.

Shinichi Fukuoka
Biologist and writer, born in Tokyo in 1959. He received his B.S. from Kyoto University and his Ph. After serving as a trainee at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Kyoto University, he is currently a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University and a visiting professor at Rockefeller University in the United States. He is the author of many books that question the nature of life from the viewpoint of dynamic equilibrium, including the bestseller "Between Organism and Inanimate Object," which won the Suntory Prize for Arts and Letters, and the "Dynamic Equilibrium" series.

Author:
坂本龍一 : Musician, born in Tokyo in 1952, made his solo debut in 1978 with "Thousand Knives". In the same year, he formed "YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA (YMO)". Winner of the British Academy Award for Best Composition for the film "Merry Christmas at the Battlefield", the Academy Award for Best Original Music Composition for the film "The Last Emperor", and a Grammy Award, among others. He founded the forest conservation organization "more trees" and has expressed his support for nuclear power phase-out through activities such as "stop rokkasho" and "NO NUKES. In 2014, he announced that he had been diagnosed with mid-pharyngeal cancer, but in 2015, he made his comeback by producing the music for Yoji Yamada's "Mother and I" and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "The Revenant: The Return". In 2017, he released his first solo album in eight years, "async. Then in 2021, he announced that he had rectal cancer. In January 2023, he will release "12", an album of songs he sketched as if writing a diary during his battle with the disease.

Shinichi Fukuoka : Biologist and writer, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1959. Graduated from Kyoto University and completed the doctoral course at the same university. After working as a trainee at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Kyoto University, he is currently a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University and a visiting professor at Rockefeller University in the United States. He has published many books that question what life is from the viewpoint of dynamic equilibrium, including the bestseller "Between Organisms and Inanimate Objects," which won the Suntory Prize for Arts and Sciences, and the "Dynamic Equilibrium" series.