Off the cuff thought on this (and I'll confess I've only skimmed the article). The Game of Life is interesting to humans for the same reason it's hard for simp

Off the cuff thought on this (and I'll confess I've only skimmed the article). The Game of Life is interesting to humans for the same reason it's hard for simple NN's to predict it. And it's for the same reason we find it hard to intuitively predict the output from GOF patterns withouts tons of exposure or by just running the rules through in our head like very inefficient computers.