-> SK>X00X0X00                                  00000XX0
-> SK>0000XX0X                                  0XOXOX00
-> SK>X0X00X00                                  00X00XX0
-> SK>0XX0X000    Then the next generation      00X0X000
-> SK>00X00XXX    would be this:                00X0XXXX
-> SK>0X00X00X                                  00000X0X
-> SK>00000000                                  00000000
-> SK>X00000X0                                  00000000
-> For example, the 5th symbol in the first row is surrounded
-> by 4 X's, but by the time it comes to life, it would be
-> surrounded by only 3 X's (and therefore "legal")...
SK>The 5th symbol in the first row would come to life the following
SK>generation.
-> The simultaneity of events refers to EACH symbol as they are
-> processed one at a time, not ALL symbols processed at the
-> same time....
SK>Huh? I don't quite get that.
Heh... I'm not surprised; I didn't say it very clearly...
What I mean to say is that the 5th symbol looks around 
BEFORE being "born" to see if it can BE born, rather
than being "born" and then looking around to see if it can 
remain alive.... What you're doing is the former, so the
5th symbol does not come alive until the next generation.
What I was thinking was that you set up for the next
generation, and then looked at what you'd have, to see if
any that would have been living had to immediately die off.  
In one case, the 5th symbol isn't born, in the other, it 
remains alive after being born....
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