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Re:The Recursive Universe by wcoenen on Sunday August 30, 2020 @07:51PM (#24327056)
> example in nature or science, of cellular automata

Skin scales of ocellated lizards: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22031

edit: more accessible article about the above paper, with pictures: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.7369/full...

My intuition is that a lot of embryology is also related to CA: cells have to build larger structures by using only local rules and state.

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Re:The Recursive Universe by jamiek88 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @09:46PM (#24327732)
The embryology of the brain is an obvious candidate. Very small instruction set to build it, the neuron pattern repeated, local rules and state.
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