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other researchers [...] still worry about the difficulty of finding local rules that correspond to real natural systems

Citation from Amato et al. establishing the unsolved problem that DiffLogic CA addresses

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Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to pattern generation with learned recurrent circuits

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Amato et al.
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Cited for noting difficulty of finding local rules that correspond to real natural systems in CA

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DiffLogic CA can directly learn the local rules needed to achieve desired macroscopic computation, addressing the fundamental challenge identified by Toffoli and Margolus
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Core thesis of the paper framed against the historical challenge of hand-crafting CA rules

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