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14: The Digital Crystal
15: The Crystal Gets a Past
16: Before There Are Messages
17: How Does the Crystal Respond to Perturbation
18: Can Experience Change the Material?
19: Can the Crystal Tell Two Pasts Apart?
20: What Happens When the Crystal Can Lose Material?
21: What Does It Cost to Stay?
22: Is the Crystal a Thing or a Flow?
23: What Does One Attachment Cause?
24: Where Is Causal Gain Created?
25: How Does Finite Computation Create Non-Local Coupling?
26: How Does Finite Selection Route Causality?
27: Can Stored Material History Redirect the Future?
28: Containment Is Not Individuation
29: How to Fail Correctly
30: What Is Digital Life?
Appendix: Phenomenon Ledger

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Cellular Automata From First Principles 58: Capstone — Discover, Measure and Explain a New System
Cellular Automata From First Principles 57: Build a Cellular Automata Laboratory
Cellular Automata From First Principles 56: Generate Figures and Animations
Cellular Automata From First Principles 55: Run Parameter Sweeps and Benchmarks
Cellular Automata From First Principles 54: Make Experiments Reproducible
Cellular Automata From First Principles 53: Build a Reusable Cellular Automata Engine
Cellular Automata From First Principles 52: Use FFTs for Large Neighborhoods
Cellular Automata From First Principles 51: Run Cellular Automata on the GPU
Cellular Automata From First Principles 50: Vectorize the Update Loop
Cellular Automata From First Principles 49: Profile Before You Optimize
Cellular Automata From First Principles 48: What Did the Neural CA Actually Learn?
Cellular Automata From First Principles 47: Inspect Hidden-State Propagation
Cellular Automata From First Principles 43: Test Generalization Beyond Training
Cellular Automata From First Principles 46: Generalize to Harder and Larger Mazes
Cellular Automata From First Principles 42: Regenerate After Damage
Cellular Automata From First Principles 45: Learn to Solve Mazes
Cellular Automata From First Principles 41: Train for Persistence
Cellular Automata From First Principles 44: Neural Cellular Automata for Pathfinding
Cellular Automata From First Principles 40: Randomize the Update Schedule
Cellular Automata From First Principles 39: Grow a Target From One Seed
Cellular Automata From First Principles 38: Hidden Cell Channels and Local Memory
Cellular Automata From First Principles 37: Learn the Local Update Rule
Cellular Automata From First Principles 36: Make the Automaton Differentiable
Cellular Automata From First Principles 35: Flow-Lenia and Mass-Conserving Artificial Life
Cellular Automata From First Principles 34: Damage, Robustness and Persistence

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