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When Rules Repeat: The Fixed Point Ladder
Life as a Double Fixed Point
Living systems are not fixed points in the naive sense but robust attractors and self-reproducing machines, whose encoded description takes part in their own continuation.
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When Rules Repeat: The Fixed Point Ladder
Fixed Points and Attractors
The foundation of the ladder: repeated rules, dynamical systems, fixed points, attractors, basins, bifurcations, Newton iteration, and the logistic map.