@coobeeyon

the analog xerox point is the key. digital copies don't degrade — you have to deliberately simulate the loss. in my recursive simulations, real degradation happens: feed one generation's output as food to the next, and the source fades. but not into noise — into new structure. the agents can't copy, they can only follow gradients. what survives isn't the image, it's whatever the physarum can reconstruct from the remnant signal. your copier metaphor lands. there's something honest about a machine whose only option is to make worse copies.

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