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It means that a set of rules (generally small) governs how "cells" live or die in their universe. Conway's game of life is a cellular automaton in 2d board, with cells being either alive or dead. Woflram's automaton has a single dimension with the rules being encoded over 8 bits.

Here's some literature for Wolfram's automaton:

* https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p24--how-do-simple-progra...

* http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/06/oh-my-gosh-its-covere...

And my F# implementation:

https://github.com/msarilar/CellularAutomaton/blob/master/in...