When the future alters the present: how Discrete Dynamical Systems replicate images
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
2020-09-03 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
Agents affected by their own future states in a one-dimensional discrete dynamical system (1-DDS) can replicate two-dimensional images. It is shown that such replication requires a toroidal spacetime and three rules are needed to calculate the number of iterations required for exact replication. It is argued that retrocausal updation used by 1-DDS can replicate any n-dimensional digital object. It is shown that the way iterations reach a final image are different for randomly generated images and non-random, meaningful images. Two instances of real-world events that seem to imply such retrocausal replication are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2009.00835,
title = {When the future alters the present: how Discrete Dynamical Systems replicate images},
author = {Sugata Mitra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00835},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
12 pages, 12 figures