Cheap Complex Devices
John Compton Sundman
Computers & Technology
Cheap Complex Devices
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If Charles Dickens had been a parallel processor, if Leo Tolstoy had been made of silicon, if Vladimir Nabokov had written in hexadecimal, if John Updike had had a universal power supply and a cooling fan, one of them might have written Cheap Complex Devices, winners of the inaugual Hofstadter Prize for computer-written novel awarded by the prestigious Society for Analytical Engines. Cheap Complex Devices represents the state of the art in mechanically-constructed narrative, and the future of fiction.



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I encourage you to use that ole search engine and go find a few reviews of this short little book, of which I'm inordinately fond. I particularly appreciate David Weinberger's comparing this book to the works of Nabokov and (professor) Giuseppe Granieri's calling me "The Borges of Silicon Valley"). 



The Mind Over Matter trilogy



Mind over Matter comprises the novel Acts of the Apostles by John F.X. Sundman and the novellas Cheap Complex Devices by John Compton Sundman and The Pains by John Damien Sundman (with illustrations by Cheeseburger Brown). These three books, although different from each other in genre, literary technique, authorial voice, and so forth, share a common theme of exploring how mind arises from matter. As a set they embody a "strange loop" like those expounded by Douglas Hofstadter ( very crudely summarized, Hofstadter postulates that self-aware minds arise from strange loops that reference themselves). As to the reality or fictitiousness of each of the three John Sundmans who ostensibly wrote these books, (and how they relate to me) readers are advised to read all three books and form their own opinions. 

Language
English
ISBN
1-929752-30-X
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