"The initial goal of John Conway was to define an interesting and unpredictable cell automaton.... "While the definitions before Conway's LIFE were proof-orien

"The initial goal of John Conway was to define an interesting and unpredictable cell automaton.... "While the definitions before Conway's LIFE were proof-oriented, Conway's construction simply aimed at simplicity without a priori aiming at the proof of automaton being alive." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life