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

what that looks like

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.