On 15 Apr 2015, at 10:55, LizR wrote:
That's rather mind-boggling - GOL rather than GOD?
If GOL is God, we are all trivially God. We, the universal
interpreters (Fortran, Lisp, combinators, numbers, etc.).
Sometimes I call that God, the little God. It is one that you *can*
name, but once you name it, it multiplies and get other name
(computer, apple, microsoft, algol, GOL, Lisp, .... Paul, Jack, Liz,
John, Samya, etc.
The apparition of computer is an abstract big-bang, a sort of creative
explosion, with infinitely many echoes, leading to layers and layers
of universality: universes, lives, brains, languages, computers, ...
Bruno
On 15 April 2015 at 20:03, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
Hi,
Here is a wonderful video showing an emulation of the game of life,
programmed in the game of life. It illustrates well the notion of
emulation. In fact the program is supposed to emulate itself, so
there is a nice "inception" effect, also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
I have to go,
Have a good day,
Bruno
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