The next image illustrates the history of CA[600]. It is symmetric and isolated.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
8. Observer and CA attributes
When inspecting a CA we ought to distinguish between, observer and CA attributes. In the next image a zygote was planted and the CA[600] evolves. Its history (trajectory) is outlined by the observer. It is an observer attribute. The observer plants also the zygote. The CA does not remember its history. It lives in the present (now) without any notion of the past. Nevertheless its current structure is determined by previous states, yet it does not remember them. The present state is magnified.
