Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Only a few of the possible rules are Turing-complete.

I fully understand exactly what he's saying. I'm simply denying that he's 
correct, on the grounds that he does an infinite amount of setup before he 
even starts running the CA.  If he came up with a small rule that would 
create the initial pattern in a finite number of steps, then maybe it would 
make more sense. But as he described it, he needs to set up an infinite 
number of clock pulses before starting the emulation in order to clock the 
emulation. I'm not sure that's allowed, any more than it's allowed to set up 
an infinite pattern of states on a turing machine before starting.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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