Right, this is very interesting, you are effectively running the data and code intermingled instead of in different separate memory areas. A fascinating thing

Right, this is very interesting, you are effectively running the data and code intermingled instead of in different separate memory areas. A fascinating thing about computing with rule 110 seems to be that it is inherently parallel, the "instruction" is applied to the entire memory area in lockstep. There is no control flow of any kind. So if you have static data you need to encode it as "idle" instructions. I/O is an even more interesting problem...