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... I'd certainly be comfortable if someone called the above pattern a "signal circuit". Personally I'd be more likely to say it's "signal circuitry" or "an example of signal circuitry". I don't use "circuit" very much at all, because ...

... that I'd like to hear the community's opinions on, related to the term "signal circuitry" rather than "dependent reflector". Anyways, it is not as pretty, and feels like ...

... of dependent reflector I had thought the same but I heard that in signal circuitry timers are used and this has the ability to be used as a timer, so I disagree. but ...

... gliders have a nonzero effect on the reflector.(just as any other signal circuitry) You can think of that part as a degenerate kind of 0-degree dependent reflector, ...

... (if not outright contradictory) to view individual gliders as "signals" in my example above, is that the "black box" approach conflicts ... have a nonzero effect on the reflector.(just as any other signal circuitry) You can think of that part as a degenerate kind of 0-degree dependent ...

... (if not outright contradictory) to view individual gliders as "signals" in this example. I think information theory defines these as signals ... dependent reflector I had thought the same but I heard that in signal circuitry timers are used and this has the ability to be used as a timer, ...

... lean on the side of confocaloid. I am 100% fine with the definition of signal, but I see no gain in using the term "signal circuitry" over "circuitry", If someone sees the term "circuitry" and think it is too ambiguous, ...

... a single Snark) is indistinguishable from the local behaviour of some signal-processing circuitry involving Snark. So, we might as well call the gliders in a p43 Snark loop 'signals', ...

... a single Snark) is indistinguishable from the local behaviour of some signal-processing circuitry involving Snark. So, we might as well call the gliders in a p43 Snark loop 'signals', ...

I don't believe 'signal circuitry' is a well-defined category. (To be clear: having a folder named 'Signal-Circuitry' in a pattern ...

confocaloid-signal: informational content. Immutable and unchanging: signals don't flip or turn, because ... my memory is correct, I even thought of that update as being in large part a "signal circuitry update". But I did add every instance of the term on purpose, not mechanically ...

Even Life Lexicon uses the term "signal converter" under the entry for "splitter," when strictly speaking it's only ... is correct, I even thought of that update as being in large part a "signal circuitry update". Mike Playle's and Guam's and Kazyan's and others' work on new circuitry ...

To summarize: confocaloid-signal: informational content. Immutable and unchanging: signals don't flip or turn, ... on context. May be used to refer to "objects that can carry information" in circuitry-adjacent patterns, like gliders in a memory loop or wire-based oscillators. ...

I think that in this particular case, the definition of "signal" can be usefully extended and clarified to include the signals in p6 ... definition. That's correct -- those oscillators are not examples of circuitry. The rest of what you've said in the most recent message seems to ...

Conduits and splitters and reflectors are circuitry . Adding the word "signal" does nothing but create confusion. (I'm not the only one who expressed this concern in this ...

Conduits and splitters and reflectors are circuitry . Adding the word "signal" does nothing but create confusion. (I'm not the only one who expressed this concern in this ...

I'm unwilling to use "signal circuitry" without understanding what it is, exactly. Nobody is forcing you to use "signal circuitry" or any ...

... people have to say on this topic of the proper definition and usage of "signal". We've already heard what we each have to say, many times now. Without ... of a definition that isn't really usable in the context of signal circuitry. I'm unwilling to use "signal circuitry" without understanding ...

I disagree. It is not "my definition" of signal . It's the LifeWiki definition of the concept signal Your interpretation ... they make up the great majority of the active objects traveling through signal circuitry. The definition of "signal" is currently imprecise about what other types ...

@confocaloid, when you say "In fact, they are meant to be signals", you are confusing the issue by assuming that your definition of "signal" ... object". It's very specifically "active object moving through signal circuitry ". The rule "if it's moving through signal circuitry, then it can ...

My point is that the word "signal" should not be used for the circulating gliders in either of the above cases ... useful to apply the term "signal" to the active objects traveling through signal circuitry. This is a usage in line with traditional uses of "signal" for things like ...

... such a discussion is useful/necessary for understanding. The usage of "signal" in the current definition (information carried by some moving object) ... object". It's very specifically "active object moving through signal circuitry ". The rule "if it's moving through signal circuitry, then it can ...

The usage of "signal" in the current definition (information carried by some moving object) is incompatible ... for "active object". It's very specifically "active object moving through signal circuitry ". Mixing "active object" with "signal" increases confusion. The distinction ...

... objections to this suggestion). In particular wording '"Fx" means the signal moves forward and produces a mirror-image output' is meaningless because ... context is whatever recognizable active object is moving through signal circuitry, it's not true in the least that " there can be no mirror image ...

... feedback on (not because I agree with the edit -- I'd much prefer that "signal" continue to be used in that article, rather than "object"). EDIT ... context is whatever recognizable active object is moving through signal circuitry, it's not true in the least that " there can be no mirror image ...