Inherited Compiler

The Inherited Compiler is Binary Pulse Theory's reading of a lineage of universes as a line of self-building compilers. Every universe runs the same Cell Rule, but a child's Pulsecore is filled from its parent well's information (Return to Bifurcation), so what a child inherits is the arrangement the rule acts on, and with it the words the rule writes. The Prime Pulse at the Zinf is the bootstrap, the one universe with no parent. As Thompson showed for compilers, a trait can pass down every generation through the thing that reads the data rather than the data itself (Thompson, 1984). Smolin's lineages of universes inherit changed constants (Smolin, 1997); here what is carried is the parent's written data. The game's first readings: a drawn universe holds only the rule's grammar, and a child built from its parent's data speaks. It connects to Return to Bifurcation, Genesis Seed, Speaking Condition, Lineage Note and Language of a Universe.

Category: Manuscript

Chapter: Chapter 3

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