An architecture and process are provided that encodes information into a cellular automata memory structure such that it can be recalled utilizing unique memory anchors (engrams) in a manner that both identifies and relates each piece of information relative to other data points. The automata may be individually programmable with a limited, local ruleset that activates other cellular automata based on prior patterns that were fed into the array. Deep Learning Neural Network (DLNN) systems may be probed to understand what discriminators are being used to classify the data, which is not possible with conventional DLNN techniques.