[sushisource]

+1 to this copy being a little bit over-the-top. This is neat, but, as you pointed out at the end of the day this is still computationally equivalent to normal 2d cellular automata. I suspect (not taking the time to prove this) that it's equal in a fairly obvious way, which is that you could just replace "links" with 8*<num link states> additional sub-states per cell. The only real difference is just in how it's visualized.

So, neat, but not exactly mindblowing.

[topaz0]

Seems like maybe not the only instance of self-aggrandizement in this blog... the sidebar shows posts about things like the quantum mechanics of consciousness other such quackery.

[frutiger]

Wow. One of the links is titled "Clarifying the Hierarchy of Information-Derived Gravitational Tensors in Consciousness Field Theory". The References section has 4 entries, all written by the author of this blog.

[cellular]

You may really like the PPS system which gives more life-like behavior. Here i got "hearts" beating to cause "blood to flow".

https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w

I became obsessed with these and made a few videos!

[airesearcher]

Very cool!

[airesearcher]

In theory, if using a computationally universal CA, you can simulate any other CA with it. However it might require a lot of sub-steps to do so.

No claim is being made that this is a new kind of computation.

[Isamu]

The observation that other CA can be equivalent is a weak critique at best, this CA may be a nice compact way of describing types of CA that have interesting properties. It is not terribly interesting that it may be subsumed by some other CA. It may be some interesting unstudied subset.

For instance the Game of Life is a subset of 2-d binary state CA, the rule only takes the totals of neighboring cells, and so is a subset of those CAs with rules that care about specific patterns of neighbors.