GENOME
The actual Game-of-Life rule — which neighbour counts cause birth and which allow survival — is heritable. It starts at classic Conway (B3/S23). Every death mutates it, biased toward whichever trait caused the death, so each epoch after the first runs genuinely different physics.
dashed outline = Conway baseline (B3/S23) that this epoch drifted away from
born on: 3, 6 · survives on: 2, 3, 5
Mutation lineage
8 mutations- epoch 0 → 1starvation. Metabolism genes shifted.B3/S234
- epoch 1 → 2extinction. The rule itself shifted.B36/S23
- epoch 2 → 3core necrosis. Anatomy rotated a quarter turn.B36/S234
- epoch 3 → 4overgrowth. Population ceiling tightened.B23/S23
- epoch 4 → 5extinction. The rule itself shifted.B3/S123
- epoch 5 → 6starvation. Metabolism genes shifted.B37/S23
- epoch 6 → 7core necrosis. Anatomy rotated a quarter turn.B3/S235
- epoch 7 → 8overgrowth. Population ceiling tightened.B36/S235
Every epoch's physics
9 epochsborn on: 3 · survives on: 2, 3
died of starvation
born on: 3 · survives on: 2, 3, 4
died of extinction
born on: 3, 6 · survives on: 2, 3
died of core necrosis
born on: 3, 6 · survives on: 2, 3, 4
died of overgrowth
born on: 2, 3 · survives on: 2, 3
died of extinction
born on: 3 · survives on: 1, 2, 3
died of starvation
born on: 3, 7 · survives on: 2, 3
died of core necrosis
born on: 3 · survives on: 2, 3, 5
died of overgrowth
born on: 3, 6 · survives on: 2, 3, 5
still alive