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
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"
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"