This book not only discusses cellular automata (CA) as accouterment for simulation, but also the actual building of devices within cellular automata. CA are widely used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, mathematics, and other fields. But they are also digital "toy universes" worthy of study in their own right, with their own laws of physics and behavior. In studying CA for their own sake, we must look at constructive methods, that is the practice of actually building devices in a given CA that store and process in formation, replicate, and propagate themselves, and interact with other devices in complex ways. By building such machines, we learn what the CA's dynamics are capable of, and build an intuition about how to "engineer" the machine we want. We can also address fundamental questions, such as whether universal computation or even "living" things that reproduce and evolve can exist in the CA's digital world, and perhaps, how these things came to be in out own universe.
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David Griffeath is at University of Wisconsin. Cristopher Moore is at Sante Fe Institute.
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- Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers by Stephen Wolfram on page 53, page 159, and page 260
- Lecture Notes on Particle Systems and Percolation (Brooks Cole Statistics/Probability Series) by Richard Durrett on page 159, page 179, and page 284
- Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity) by Lee A. Segel in Front Matter
- Scaling in Biology (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity) by James H. Brown in Front Matter
- Cellular Automata by Doyne Farmer on page 259
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- New Constructions in Cellular Automata (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) by David Griffeath on 16 pages
- Collision-Based Computing by Andrew Adamatzky on page 134
- Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy by Rudy Rucker in Back Matter
- Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case Studies (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity) by Erica Jen in Front Matter
- Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity) by Murray Gell-Mann in Front Matter
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