I don't know; Bloch does try to note what Borges knew about the math, and he sometimes speculates (for example in the chapter in which he models librarians as T

I don't know; Bloch does try to note what Borges knew about the math, and he sometimes speculates (for example in the chapter in which he models librarians as Turing machines). ... By the way, having now read the submitted article, let me point out a selection that exemplifies what I love about Borges's writing: There is a Hindu school of philosophy that says that we are not the actors in our lives, but rather the spectators, and this is illustrated using the metaphor of a dancer. These days, maybe it would be better to say an actor. A spectator sees a dancer or an actor, or, if you prefer, reads a novel, and ends up identifying with one of the characters who is there in front of him. This is what those Hindu thinkers before the fifth century said. And the same thing happens with us. I, for example, was born the same day as Jorge Luis Borges, exactly the same day. I have seen him be ridiculous in some situations, pathetic in others. And, as I have always had him in front of me, I have ended up identifying with him. In Borges's short stories there are very many selections like this, but it's mostly pseudo-realistic wisdom (or paradox) that's the product of Borges's own mind.