 Wolfram’s point is similar to some of Dennett’s remarks, namely: taking some sort of “design stance”, Wolfram suggests that one can talk about a cellular automaton as if it just “decides” to do this or that—“thereby effectively attributing to it some sort of free will” (Wolfram 2002: 752). One easily sees the closeness to Dennett’s famous intentional stance (Dennett 1987; see the entry on  intentionality,  esp. Section 9).