this seems vaguely like the kind of thing that hofstadter was working on with copycat etc (particularly if you think of hofstadter's version as being more compl

this seems vaguely like the kind of thing that hofstadter was working on with copycat etc (particularly if you think of hofstadter's version as being more complex because he didn't have the computing power to run many things in parallel and so needed higher level control to allocate resources).