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Fun debate: Does "Conways Game of Life" constitute a universe? If so, do those forms within it have life?

• OscarCunningham 6y ago
  It's hard to make structures in CGoL that are robust to collisions. So if you randomly initialised the universe I suspect you would never get life, because any complex structure that did arise would crash into random junk and be destroyed as soon as it tried to move.
  • undreren 6y ago
    If all nodes had a 1:1,000,000,000 chance to randomly flip every tick, then resilient structures would probably arise eventually, given a very large (or infinite) board.