Game of Life Computer Demonstration

John Conway's Game of Life

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Education

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• computer
• simulation
• virtual
• world
• philosophy
• game
• life
• john
• conway

[irationalwavesurfer]

i dont know shit about this but i suspect that within the limmits of the cellular universe the paterns exist in and given the laws of this universe there are limmits on what paterns are posible and how these are part of larger paterns. is it posible to eliminate the repeating paterns and see if subtle paterns exist that are not so obvous or to see if parts of structures can survive without the rest or reconstruct the rest when the rest is removed. ime not making myself clear at all.

[neotropic9]

The universe is Turing Complete meaning you can implement on it any program that can be written on a digital computer.

[irationalwavesurfer]

ime not all that familliar with turing. he was a mathematician ?

[neotropic9]

He was a mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher. He was the father of the modern computer, one of the main originators of artificial intelligence, and he was arguably the most important person in winning WW2, by deciphering German codes.

[pandstar]

I saw Swastikas form at about 2:40!

Proof that the theory of evolution leads to Nazism!

Ben Stein was right.

[zebruh]

Okay. THIS is awesome. I've seen the Life simulation before, but it was years ago and I didn't realize how it can apply to the questions of complexity and evolution. In this light, it was far more interesting.

[LimpsOfMuck]

1:47 Corderships

2:01 A Line Puffer

2:09 Growing Pi Ship

2:36 A sawtooth

2:49 Spaceship Guns

3:18 Wickstretcher

[LimpsOfMuck]

@pandstar that's a pattern called kok's galaxy

[Whatsifsowhatsit]

@irationalwavesurfer He's also the guy behind the Turing test, a test for determining whether a machine can be considered "intelligent" (it can be, according to this test, if it can fool a person into thinking that it is a human being rather than a machine. There's more details to it, but that's the gist of it.)

[Goldiney]

The "beauty" of math can be amazing.

[jarblewarble]

Now just make an interactive 3D version of this and call it Uber-Minecraft...

[321Carl2000]

@pandstar This simulation is not about the theory of evolution, and if it was, I can tell you that there is one place in the bible, when the bible is angled just correctly, you can see a Swastika.

[Shad12Dash]

@pandstar it looks like he manually made a swastika first

[Shad12Dash]

I made this for a class project. Nicely Done.

[deconstructo11]

Ah this is brilliant. Good version.

[fukumom100]

Thank for helping me study