alt Hacker NewsSo 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"
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.