"A Couple of Worlds" sounds like its referring to Mangled Worlds. mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/…

"Such a Thing doesn’t have to be one of those uncool beep boop silicon machines that can’t ever give rise to subjective experience oh no no way, it can be a cool bio-optical morphogenetic Yoneda-Friston entangled tubulin resonance processor. Whatever)." I'm laughing at this.