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Strange and fascinating. It raises interesting questions about we consider "life". The implementation [0] contains a whole taxonomy tree of variations, of which
by lioeters 8y ago
Strange and fascinating. It raises interesting questions about we consider "life". The implementation [0] contains a whole taxonomy tree of variations, of which Conway's Game of Life is but a branch. It's certainly an ecosystem of mathematical "life" forms.
Reminds me of one of my favorite books, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology [0].
[0] https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vehicles https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vehicles