In my analogy, God (if used a meaningful term with all the cultural baggage that it carries) maps much more closely to John Horton Conway than to either the uni

In my analogy, God (if used a meaningful term with all the cultural baggage that it carries) maps much more closely to John Horton Conway than to either the universe or the PC. I'm not asserting that Conway does or doesn't exist, merely that a Game of Life does not necessarily imply a Conway.