I think time results from anything that uses boundary conditions. Timeless quantum physics doesn’t have time as an explicit dimension, and there’s no obvious way to say which direction time flows in, but it still manages to add up to normality.
What does the observer effect have to do with it? Do you mean that something in CGoL can’t detect stuff without interfering with it? That doesn’t require much.
My main problem is that cellular automata would be very unlikely to rotationally symmetric.
I think time results from anything that uses boundary conditions. Timeless quantum physics doesn’t have time as an explicit dimension, and there’s no obvious way to say which direction time flows in, but it still manages to add up to normality.
What does the observer effect have to do with it? Do you mean that something in CGoL can’t detect stuff without interfering with it? That doesn’t require much.
My main problem is that cellular automata would be very unlikely to rotationally symmetric.