We first see [Shōji] Segawa as a shy boy good at shogi, which makes him a nerd in the eyes of some … Then, at the urging of his kindly father (Jun Kunimura), Segawa tests himself against adult opponents at a shogi dojo – a smoke-filled lair presided over by a grizzled master (Issey Ogata) who recognizes the [boy's] ability and urges them to apply to the Shogi Federation’s training academy for future pros.

Nick was on the point of declaring again that he was a humbug, so vivid was his inner sense of what he thought of his factitious public utterances, which had the cursed property of creating dreadful responsibilities and importunate credulities for him.

It is the only hope of my broken-heartedness, and a rather faint one.

Autonomicity is perceived to presume a local “intelligence” of some degree and can be studied from a very low components level, up to the highest system level. Comparing the terms, complexity is both a problem and a property.