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How Do You Get Inside That Subset of Cellular Automata?
When I can run a program and actually see pictures and, you know, make things concrete, I have a much better chance to understand what's going on than when I'm just trying to reason about things in a very abstract way. So for me, these sort of philosophical issues, and this one, I have not untangled. But the tricky part is that that little subset, it's what it's doing is it has a view of itself. And the question is, how do you get inside it?