This got me thinking; for repeatedly pasting patterns in this manner:
1) Is there a pattern that never gets into a state where all changes are swallowed, regardless of the states of any oscillators when it is pasted?
2) If there is no such pattern, is there a pattern that can, if pasted while the oscillators are in specific states, "survive" forever without returning to a previous state (it continually grows)?
I've probably done a poor job of explaining, and the questions are probably very difficult to prove one way or another, but (I think) it's an interesting idea.
In case anyone's interested in the pattern I was using, here it is:
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x = 122, y = 8, rule = B3/S23
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