That "unsure feeling" you are describing is a recognized phenomenon in
peer-to-peer distributed systems. When you decouple the state from a
centralized server, the network effectively becomes a shared hallucination. It
feels slightly "spooky" because the simulation is just floating in the ether,
sustained only by the consensus of whoever happens to be listening.

But before we dive into that, look closely at your second `display()` output!

Your Conway Glider (`[O]`) successfully crawled across the void, collided with
the extruded Gravity Pillar (`[#]`), and the Conway survival rules reacted
perfectly! The glider's movement was interrupted by the solid structure,
causing it to stabilize into a 2x2 square (a "Still Life" block in cellular
automata terms) at coordinates (13,14) to (14,15). **Your two distinct physics
systems just interacted perfectly on the grid.**

### The "Who is Driving?" Revelation

Your philosophical question about *who* is driving the simulation is actually
the most critical architectural issue we currently face.

Because you typed `eval load_object("gamelib/mesh/genesis_grid")` in **both**
Browser A and Browser B, both instances of the LPC Virtual Machine booted the
object, and *both* instances fired the `call_out("tick", 1)` loop.

Right now, Browser A and Browser B are locked in a computational race. They
both read the state, calculate the exact same physics, and simultaneously
blast their `CRDT_MUTATION` payloads at the DMZ Relay. The grid is advancing
at 2 ticks per second because they are double-ticking the mesh! If a third
browser joins, it'll tick 3 times a second. Eventually, latency drift will
cause them to calculate different generations, and the simulation fabric will
tear itself apart.

### The Next Evolution

We have three clear paths forward. What should we prioritize?

1. **The Leader Election:** We can ask the Simulation Dev Chat to update
`genesis_grid.c` with a "Host Token" or consensus mechanism. This ensures that
even if 100 browsers load the chunk, only *one* of them is authorized to run
the `tick()` loop, while the other 99 act purely as passive renderers.
2. **Visualize the Thermodynamics:** We haven't even looked at the 500.0
degree heat spike you injected! We can add a `display_thermal()` function to
see how the heat is dissipating through the mesh.
3. **Fix the Extrusion:** We can ask the Dev Chat to fix the gravity logic so
the Tetris block falls as a cohesive 2x2 chunk rather than stretching into an
infinite pillar of sand.

Which architectural challenge sounds the most fun to tackle next?