Re: The Game of Life

1999-12-08 Thread Jerry Clark
Ask it. Have you ever read 'The Intentional Stance' by Daniel Dennett? Jerry Fred Chen wrote: > How would you verify your Life pattern has achieved SAS status? > > Jerry Clark wrote: > > > More relevantly, it is posulated as highly likely that, starting with a r

Re: The Game of Life

1999-12-17 Thread Jerry Clark
David Lloyd-Jones wrote: > Hal Finney writes: > > > It has been found that "Life is Universal", meaning that you can > > construct a Universal Turing Machine out of the Life rules. It would > > then be possible to program it to simulate any mathematical or logical > > system, hence SAS's should