Have you ever read Hermann Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_? (also published as _Magister Audi_) Every time I see alternative representations of knowledge/compute

Have you ever read Hermann Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_? (also published as _Magister Audi_) Every time I see alternative representations of knowledge/computer code/algorithms it comes to mind. Would you expect a person to be able to achieve a mastery of this to the point where they could play and control something in an improvisation? Say something like to the character Agatha Heterodyne of Kaja and Phil Foglio's web comic _Girl Genius_ controlling an army of clanks (robots): https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061229 https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061229