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...and also the state of their neighbours which makes me start thinking of Conway's Game of Life...
by partomniscient 2y ago
...and also the state of their neighbours which makes me start thinking of Conway's Game of Life...
- anonymous_sorry 2y agoThis is quite common in cellular differentiation. Say a tissue needs a few cells of a certain type, roughly evenly spaced throughout. One strategy to achieve this is for all cells in the region to have a tendancy towards developing those characteristics, but also for the quickest to do so to simultaneously produce a messaging molecule that suppresses that tendency in its near neighbours.