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Exploring Mobile Automata with Non-Local Rules

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program. Interested in ruliology, I focused my project on mobile automata, a type of simple program similar to cellular automata. Mobile Automata with Non-Local Rules In cellular automata, all cells update in parallel according to a set of rules, whereas mobile automata feature a single active cell that updates at each iteration. The rules for mobile automata dictate the new state of the active cell and its movement. These rules consider the states of the active cell and its immediate neighbors, determining the new color of the active cell and whether it moves to the left or right. Traditionally, mobile automata involve the active cell interacting with its immediate left and right neighbors. However, in my project, I explored the effects of non-local interactions, where the dependent cells are farther away from the active cell. For instance, I examined scenarios where the dependent cells wer