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What are kinetic CA?

April 26, 2017ca Kinetic

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What are kinetic CA?

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Contributions by: Joseph J. Strout http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~sosic/index.html When Von Neumann started working on robotic self-replication, he first tried the “robot in a warehouse of spare-parts” approach, otherwise known as the kinematic approach. But it was was mathematically too unweildy, so he invented CA. I wonder if there has been any serious theoretical work making CA more kinetic. Last year I developed a simulation I called “Biomatrix” which sounds similar to what you’re asking about. Cells in the matrix could have a variety of states, divided into three general categories: empty, structural unit, or instruction. Cells could also contain a “program You might want to have a look at our paper: R. Sosic and Robert R. Johnson. Computational Properties of Self-Reproducing Growing Automata. (to appear in BioSystems) The paper is available from: living living, ftp.