Hideto Tomabechi

Tomabechi defined the concept of Buddhist Emptiness using the tools of modern analytic philosophy and mathematics in a publication in 2011 (Defining “Emptiness” September 30, 2011 Hideto Tomabechi)

After leaving JustSystem in 1998, Tomabechi revived a company called Cognitive Research Labs that he had founded during his Carnegie Mellon days, to work on government-sponsored projects. Cognitive Research Labs produced software that's conceptually based on an Artificial Intelligence theory called "hyperself," which Tomabechi has come to espouse after more than 15 years of research work as an AI scholar and functional brain scientist.

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.

Aum Shinrikyo was a religious cult founded by Asahara Shoko in 1987. Aum Shinrikyo carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year. Asahara's religious doctrines were built from several other religious and spiritual teachings. He used Indian Buddhism, Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity for his teachings. In fact, he studied hypnosis early on and was very interested in mind control and brainwashing. Later he only concentrated on brainwashing, which he cleverly hid in the teachings. However, he was not successful in hypnosis, so he used a chemical and technical approach to control followers. On the morning of 20 March 1995, Aum members released a binary chemical weapon, most closely chemically similar to sarin, in a coordinated attack on five trains in the Tokyo subway system.

In 1995, the Japanese Police requested Tomabechi Hideto to assist in their investigation of the Tokyo subway sarin attack. He returned home from America where he was involved in brain research at Harvard University. The series of attacks were carried out in an affected state of consciousness (mostly drugs and hypnosis), resulting in memory loss in the assassins. Dr. Hideto Tomabechi used cognitive techniques and hypnosis, he was able to successfully evoke details of assassinations from people's consciousness, which greatly influenced the investigation. He successfully deprogrammed leaders of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult responsible for the attack. Tomabechi was one of Aum's greatest enemies, and an assassination attempt was made against him, which was unsuccessful.

Hideto Tomabechi received his Ph.D in the field of computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). 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".

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.

Dr. Hideto Tomabechi received his PhD in 1993 from Carnegie Mellon University. He published two high-impact algorithms in his doctoral thesis.

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.

Hideto Tomabechi created the first computer capable of recognising and interpreting human speech in 1987 at Carnegie Mellon University. The name of the research project was Carnegie Mellon's complex machine. Carnegie Mellon's complex machine translation process converts human concepts to knowledge-based computer structures to avoid mismatched words. An intermediary language called Interlingua has been developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The technique has laid the foundation for an accurate machine translator for Japanese to English, and vica versa.

Hideto Tomabechi (PhD, Professor, Adjunct Fellow) (Knight: Cav. di Gr. Cr.) (born 1959) (Japanese: 苫米地英人) is a Japanese cognitive scientist (computational linguistics, functional brain science, cognitive psychology, cognitive warfare, analytic philosophy) computer scientist (distributed processing, discrete mathematics, artificial intelligence, cyber security).

Tomabechi was also trained in various Japanese martial arts including Judo, Kendo and Karate in his youthhood. There was Budo-Ban in Japan from 1945 to 1950 by Supreme Commander Allied Powers (SCAP). Dr. Tomabechi's grand father Hidetoshi Tomabechi, member of Japanese Diet, chief of Kano-Juku and an early instructor (8 dan) of Kodokan Judo for Jigoro Kano was a central figure in having Judo exempted from the ban. Kendo was also released from the ban. Ancient house martial arts were not released from the ban. Therefore, it was important to keep house martial art practice private. Accordingly, in his early youth, Dr. Tomabechi was trained in Kodokan Judo and Keisatsu (Police) Kendo in public and trained in the house martial art in private. He also joined Kyokushin Karate at age 13 during early days of Kyokushinkan.