How to make the world's first discovery: Interview with Dr. Masaya Itokawa, a molecular biologist who discovered the dopamine gene for the first time in the world [20]

What molecular biologists think between science and spirit, the visible and the invisible world.

Why did Dr. Masanari Itokawa, a psychiatrist and scientist, make the first discovery in the world? He talks about science, philosophy, mind and spirit.

To Dr. Masanari Itokawa, a molecular biologist who discovered the dopamine gene for the first time in the world

・How could such a feat be accomplished?

・Uplifting that only the one can know the discovery in the world at that time

And so on.

Masanori Itokawa is an active psychiatrist and researcher.

The interviewer is Kenji Kogusu, a writer and a thinker.

We will talk from 1 in order, and finally the story will reach the visible and invisible worlds seen by scientists.

1. Why did you make the first discovery in the world?

・How did you feel when you made a global discovery?

2. Findings come from mistakes! ?

・Did you sleep on that day?

・Did you tell someone what you found?

・Being a beginner led to success! ?

・Is it better not to know?

3. Zen teaching, don't forget the beginning

・Some people do nothing but some people do nothing.

・It is difficult to remain a beginner

・The more you learn, the farther you learn

・The great people are not right, but the beginners are not wrong

・Many good scientists are like ****ren

4. Qualifications as a researcher

・Do you find it interesting when something different from what you thought happened?

5, the reason for the discovery of the best in the world

・If you don't want to do anything, you don't have to compete with others.

・I was successful because I didn't have confidence

・Mainstreaming research is not collecting numbers

6. About the world of what we can see and what we cannot see

・What is invisible is related to what is visible

7. What scientists think about philosophy, science and mind

・Different Cartesian substances and non-material substances

・Since the spirit is not a substance, we tried to understand the spirit by studying the brain.

・No matter where you look in your brain, you cannot find the substance "dignity/self-esteem".

・We do not distinguish between substances and non-substances

8. What molecular biologists think between science and spirit, the visible world and the invisible world

・ Eugenic thought