Isn't this single frame state of a classic cellular automata? Note, not "just" because I mean no disrespect. I don't understand how this differs from Conway's life other than nuances of the live or die rule.

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gsf_emergency_6 a day ago | parent | next [-]

CGL doesn't have the scale invariance ("fractality") of ASM. ASM criticality is stable and persistent. "fractal life on edge"?

what that looks like

https://youtu.be/rKD51IUNK3A?t=40s

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ggm a day ago | parent [-]

So that gets to how it differs, but it doesn't say its not a cellular automata. It could say "it's a cellular automata with different rules"

	▲	gsf_emergency_6 a day ago \| parent [-]
		It is a cellular automata distinguished by commutativity. You used CGL as the basis for comparison, that's highly nonAbelian. According to Wolfram (& I agree :), everything is a cellular automaton, so comparing to CGL made more sense to me.

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Sharlin 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't believe that Game of Life is Abelian.

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tripplyons 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think you could even define an associative binary operator on states in the Game of Life because of its computational irreducibility.

	▲	ggm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		CGOL is is turing complete. If you can make a NOR gate, you can make anything.

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