[RaftPeople]

> show me a representation where a random bit flip generally results in a different but viable entity

It's a really interesting problem I pondered quite a bit when doing some a-life hobby stuff.

I never came up with a good solution, but you can kind of "feel" that the solution needs to be more analog-ish in the way info is represented. As you say, a small change in data (bit flip) probably needs to produce a small change in the resulting form. Possibly the binary representation points to a vector space of form "primitives" (drivers of form) such that adjacent points have similar form.