the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context.

[shweta_narayan]

Still aten't dead. Just going through a series of minor computer/health/internet disasters; the usual. Right now I'm not too sick to post but I am too sick to make diss progress, so... er... here I am

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[zwol]

The Jargon File is not always a reliable secondary source, but it credits your sentence to "David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his Metamagical Themas column in the January 1981 Scientific American" and if I search for David Moser I get, among other things, this incredibly self-referential story so the attribution seems plausible.

Hippy pappy publications!

[vvvexation]

And most of the sentences on the page Shweta linked are found in Hofstadter.

[zwol]

You'd probably really like Sultana Lena's Gift and her other artificer bird stories, I think.

[shweta_narayan]

I admit, I didn't read most of them - couldn't without my eyes crossing! - but those I recognize probably all trace back to him somewhere along the way.

[shweta_narayan]

That'd make sense.
I know of it from Hofstadter (from a bit over 10 years ago now, heh) but iirc many or most of his examples aren't original to him; he's thinking about other people's thinking a lot.