Enaction's claim of continuity between life and mind is a bold one. We investigate one aspect of this claim using a glider in the Game of Life as a toy model. Specifically, we study the relationship between theories of glider constitution and glider interaction, demonstrating how a glider's constitution completely determines its interaction graph, but not the particular life that it enacts, which also requires knowledge of the dynamics of its environment.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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