On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Conway's Life is computable but not predictable, > > > > > That raises a question as to what "predictable" means. >
If using the standard Game Of Life rules you could generate a new generational pattern in N steps but I had some magic algorithm that could do the same thing in less than N steps then the Game Of Life would be predictable. But there is no such algorithm. The fastest way to know what it would do is to just run the Game Of Life program and watch. > > > In what sense is the evolution of Schrodinger's equation predictable? > It doesn't matter because it described nothing observable, only the square of the absolute value of Schrodinger's equation is important, and even then it's only a probability not a certainty. > > > the GoL is not reversible > True, that's because for any given pattern there is usually more than one parent pattern that could have produced it. > > > if you watched a GoL running backwards it would include randomness. Yes, but a reverse Game Of Life is not computable. John K Clark -- 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/d/optout.
