Wow. This reminds me of the trick they used in "Permutation City" by Greg Egan for infinite computation power.
EDIT: shame there's no rule that allows to add copper cells from inside the automaton. It would make it possible to rewire the computer according to program.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 12.6 ms ] threadEDIT: shame there's no rule that allows to add copper cells from inside the automaton. It would make it possible to rewire the computer according to program.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=623754
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398283
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3338845 <- Some comments