# A changing physical substrate as part of search

ID: state-dependent-physical-search
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Epistemic kind: reconstruction

## Question

Can the changing physical state of a computing substrate participate in search rather than merely corrupt it?

## Formulation

Explore memristive and fractal layouts in which conductance history, heat, noise, and parallel arrival times may affect the next search step; compare this with efforts to linearize the same hardware.

## Tension

The same state change can be useful adaptation or a corruption of the result.

## Challenge

What task and measurement distinguish useful exploration from uncontrolled error?