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Sad to see no mention of the fact that we have built computers in Game of Life, including one that can play tetris: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions

• leephillips 6y ago
  The video at the top of the article seems to be a depiction of a computer made in Life that encodes Life. Melanie Mitchell’s comment, early in the article, mentions that fact that you are sad to see no mention of.
• seph-reed 6y ago
  There is one mention of it in one of the quotes. > Melanie Mitchell — Professor of complexity, Santa Fe Institute Given that Conway’s proof that the Game of Life can be made to simulate a Universal Computer — that is, it could be “programmed” to carry out any computation that a traditional computer can do — the extremely simple rules can give rise to the most complex and most unpredictable behavior possible