On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you think that Conway's Game of Life and this new app, speak to the > notion that we ourselves might be living within a cellular automata (more of > a Von Newmann thing then Conway)??
This is really cool, but I don't think that the GoL is enough to model fundamental reality. My intuition is that it is sufficient to capture some aspects of it, maybe enough to create a toy model that bootstraps evolutionary processes. On the other hand, the type of locality in GoL seems too simplistic. I believe that the GoL is Turing-complete, so if you accept comp you can imagine the universal machine running in the medium of the GoL, but I don't think this is what you're looking for. Telmo. > -----Original Message----- > From: meekerdb <[email protected]> > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > Sent: Sat, Nov 23, 2013 11:06 pm > Subject: Fwd: Geminoid replicator > > From another list: Conway's life not only lives - now it can evolve. > > Brent > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Dave Green has put together a replicator for Conway Life. > He has several versions. The smallest, fastest, has a > bounding box of 3.7M^2, and takes 89M ticks to make a copy. > If I'm reading his description correctly, the population of ON > cells is 150K, most of which is information-carrying gliders. > > Rich > > ----- Forwarded message > > The phase-shifted linear replicator is finally done -- several > versions, actually, all using the same single-arm universal > constructor and the same basic recipe. See > > http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1006&p=9908#p9901 > > The smallest pattern file is only 27K compressed, but the uncompressed > macrocell file is almost 100K so I won't try quoting it here. There > are links in the forum posting. > > Keep the cheer, > > > Dave Greene > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email > to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
