The paper is surreal. An AI paper that starts with experiments on drowning cats and religious chimpanzees. Then it talks about making the system by cutting up

The paper is surreal. An AI paper that starts with experiments on drowning cats and religious chimpanzees. Then it talks about making the system by cutting up a large wire mesh and assembling it back randomly. Then it talks about simulating the system on a computer, and coding it in a programming language called YAWN that is like English. Then it says that they could not obtain the machine that runs YAWN programs, so they emulated that machine on another computer (IBM 704). Then it says (excitedly) that the machine printed gibberish when presented with a certain input and on another run ejected the input punched card twice. I'm not sure if this is real or a joke. I'm not sure if the experiment itself was designed as a joke to waste US military's computer time. I'm not sure if this has some deep lessons. To me, it felt like when Dumbledore set the chicken on fire in HPMOR.