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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by sorokod on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:22AM (#13012839)
This is one of the themes in "I am a strange loop" by Hofstadter. If I remember correctly, the relevant chapter is titled "who pushes whom in the cranium"
Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by grkvlt on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:19AM (#13013273)
It's actually an essay of his: "Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium" [1] discussing a marble-based conciousness (with the marbles 'careening' around the 'cranium' generating the awful pun...)

[1] https://jsomers.net/careenium.pdf