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His works are usually literary fictionspeculative fiction or science fiction. Born in in Sapporo. He worked as a post-doc researcher at several
research institutes for seven years, then abandoned the academic career in [1] and found a programmer job at a software firm resigns in to become
a full-time writer. His literary fictions are often dense with allusions. Often, his science fiction works take motif from mathematics. The narrator of
"Boy's Surface" is a morphismand the title is Self Reference ENGINE reference to a geometrical notion.
In "Moonshine"natural numbers are sentient through a savant 's mind's eye in a field of the monster group. Since then they often appeared together
at science fiction conventions and interviews, and collaborated in a few works, until Itoh's death of Self Reference ENGINE in At the press
conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in Januaryhe revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel Shisha no
teikoku.
An interviewer in the literary journal Asymptote wrote, "Toh EnJoe's stories are known for their scientific lucidity and literary impenetrability. His
language and his writing style, however, belie his background as a physicist: topics woven into his stories include science, Self Reference ENGINE
also linguistics, literary theory, and Self Reference ENGINE approaches to the imagination. His complicated narrative structures are the subject of
heated discussions and have even evoked harsh reviews calling his work 'indigestible', 'sleep-inducing,' and 'reader-unfriendly'.
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the phrase "giant corpora of knowledge" there are actually in-book explanations why they can't simply be referred to as "computers" or "AIs" - but
also the style does not flow in English.
I've read other Japanese books in translation and know that sometimes even the best translation can be a little choppy or odd - Japanese literature
is just different from Western writing - but I didn't have this problem with Murakami or Abe or Kawabata.
Still, I suspect even if I read it in the original Japanese I'd have found this book hard to get through, despite being fairly short. There are lots of very
bizarre and interesting ideas, from quantum physics to alternate realities. Zeno's Paradox and time travel mechanics get passing mentions, but what
will probably stick with you are the arguments with a sentient bobby sock, the girl who fires a bullet into the future, that one of the narrators
worries will be aimed at one of his testicles, and the giant corpora of knowledge that are recursive and matrioshka-like, and sometimes take the
form of old Japanese men in a traditional print shop, and sometimes are more like constructs out of the Matrix.
Reading this was an experience. I just can't call it a fun experience. It's worth looking at, because it's probably unlike anything you've read before,
but it seems like one of those books destined to become a cult favorite by the elitist of nerds who will look down their noses at you if you Self
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But read some Toh EnJoe, man, that's real Nipponophile cred. I wish I'd liked this book more. It's of those books that leaves you with the
disquieting feeling that maybe you just weren't smart enough to appreciate it. Apr 04, Richard Stuart rated it really liked it. A warped imagination
underpins this mathematical fairy tale and creates delightful rabbit holes to stumble down into.
A very good book: clever, mindbending, and irreverent. Mar 27, Kyle Muntz rated it it was amazing. Maybe not the best, but the most interesting
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accolades not only for his theoretically informed and highly imaginative takes on the science-fiction genre, but also for his work in what genre
detractors and defenders alike describe as the literary.
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one question the fabric of reality, but that his tales are based solidly on scientific understanding. When EnJoe's characters ruminate on the
possibility of whether there is almost surely an infinite number of their duplicates, or when godlike computer systems find themselves struggling
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theory permeates.
Causality, quantum uncertainty, infinity, string theory and the multiverse: popular topics in science fiction, all, but rarely have they been considered
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knowledge with his imagination to create stories that broaden horizons and work Self Reference ENGINE the brain.
Perhaps even a sense joyfulness. The strangeness of the characters, the incidences, the events and the Event celebrates the wonder of both the
universe and the human predicament within it. At times EnJoe does veer towards being perhaps too clever, as not all of the parts of this book
match each other in terms of humour, accessibility and creativity, but even at his weakest, EnJoe shows himself more than capable of challenging
and engaging the reader.
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May 24, William Mansky rated it really liked it. There are Self Reference ENGINE lines of reasoning that, if you've spent much time around logic,
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Toh EnJoe a pen name, if Self Reference ENGINE wondering has written an entire book out of these, a collection of 20 or so linked and multiply-
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computer science, seem both entirely reasonable and entirely absurd.
Toh EnJoe a pen name, if you're wondering has written an entire book out of these, a collection of 20 or so linked and multiply-linked, if we are to
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fractured space-time continuum that is the setting.
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Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentenceidea or formula refers to itself. The reference may be expressed either directly
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pronoun "I" in English.
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philosophical paradoxes. In game theoryundefined behaviors can occur where two players must model each other's mental states and behaviors,
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mirror images of themselves and of the novel itself. Self-reference in art is closely related to the concepts of breaking the fourth wall and meta-
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object language are the same. Such a sentence is referring to itself. However some meta-sentences of this type can lead to paradoxes. However
"This sentence is false" is a meta-sentence which leads to a self-referential paradox.
Such sentences can lead to problems, for example, in law, where statements bringing laws into existence can contradict one another or themselves.
Self-reference occasionally occurs in the media when it is required to write about itself, for example the BBC reporting on job cuts at the BBC.
Notable encyclopedias may be required to feature articles about themselves, such as Wikipedia 's article on Wikipedia. Fumblerules are a list of
rules Self Reference ENGINE good grammar and writing, demonstrated through sentences that violate those very rules, such as "Avoid cliches like
the plague" and "Don't use no double negatives".
The term was coined in a published list of such rules by William Safire. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A sentence, idea or formula that
refers to itself. For the self-reference template on Wikipedia, see Template:Selfref. MIT Press. Retrieved 16 May Retrieved 17 May Perspectives
on the History of Mathematical Logic. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Books. Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture.
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