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Week 1: Rules and initial conditions

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In this week we’ll have an overview of the course and learning strategies. We'll investigate the importance of initial conditions for rule based systems and discuss the relevance of "pioneering" work on the field.

Critical Pedagogy

Wiki Garden.

Teaching to transgress.

Computation without a computer.

What is a Cellular Automata anyway?

Classic Science looks at the world through the lens of pure mathematical functions.

Smooth world or computable world?

New Kind of Science.

Rules, how to execute them and initial condition.

Scientific Aesthetic: Simplification and categorization.

256 Elementary Cellular Automata and its types.

Questions

What’s wrong with the academic narrative about cellular automata?

Proposed Activities

Homework Proposal

Craft something using an elementary cellular automata

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