John Conway Talks About the Game of Life Part 2

[Copiophonica]

00:8 reminded me of the Matrix immediately.

[deanmullen10]

I believe nothing exists. if you take the mathematical fact that 1 is the same as 0.9999999........ exc. then that means 1-1 is also 1-0.999999...... so 1-1 = 0 yet that means 0 is the same as 0.00000000......exc...1

so 0 or nothing can still be something, although this something may be vague, even a self-reflected illusion and impossibly small. it is possible in nothing that a tiny emergence of something will come.

get deep enough into it it becomes very realistic, eventually u reach now!

[zholzapfel]

@deanmullen10 But when will then be now?

[zholzapfel]

@deanmullen10 I also have to disagree with your statement that .99999 equals 1. You cant have .99999 of a persimmon , even if you cut off a small slice. You then have 1 persimmon and one smaller persimmon. The molecules that make up both are the same, they just vary in quantity and shape. .9999 deals largely with lazyness and a lack of understanding of varying levels of infinity and what they mean. The real question for me is 1/3 +2/3 is 1 and .3333 x 3 is .99999. How does .999 become 1?

[deanmullen10]

@zholzapfel Mathematicians have stated 0. 999999 on with an infinite number of 9s = 1

[Maarttttt]

@deanmullen10 They have probably been proven wrong, since 0.99... is a irrational number, 1 is rational.

0.999... approximates 1 to an infinite degree, yet is a whole different number.

[hurpderp123]

@zholzapfel Because we're talking about an infinitesimally small difference, which is not in the set of real numbers.

[Pichounator]

Thanks for uploading this!

[conceitarturo]

I think the natural world is different from the game of life in that it's rules change according to scale...atleast. I intuit that we're really not subject to just one set of rules, but an endless continuation of rules that we cant percieve, because we are a product of them and we have a place within them, and to percieve different rules than those of normal life we'd have to abandon our very nature.

[livedandletdie]

@conceitarturo not at all. The rules we abide to is just as simple as we are but we as a multicellular organism works with a few more simple rules than the game of lifes rules.

1. eat and divide is the first rule and it applys to our cells which in fact are bacterias with other bacterias in them.

2.die when damaged still applies to our cells.

3. divide to repair dead cells.

4. destroy foreign cells.

The list goes on to about 20 basic rules for cellular behaviour and some advanced ones.

[conceitarturo]

@livedandletdie right, that may be in the biological field. but what about atoms? what about subatomic;quantic nature? what about macroscopic galactic scale? what about things that lie at the other side of the Black Holes?

[koktelici]

1:45 epic

[PsalmsOfPlanets072]

I lost the game

[larry89]

impossible to win

[karlmonster]

you lost the game of life ? how did you do that ?

[MarkWillsUK]

Just amazing!! I wrote a life simulator two years on a very old (1981) vintage machine. I'm pausing the video, copying the shapes onto my program and watching them!! Lovely stuff. Thanks for sharing! Mark