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What is special about Game Of Life? Why does it seem to be the most "interesting" cellular automaton?
by galaxyLogic 5y ago
What is special about Game Of Life? Why does it seem to be the most "interesting" cellular automaton?
- ColinWright 5y agoIt's simple, small, clean, and Turing Complete. Most others show "interesting behaviour" (for some definition thereof) but are not Turing Complete (though some are). I've not found a CA that's Turing Complete and as small and easy to understand (which is not to say there isn't one).
- spicybright 5y agoI think it's just inertia. It's the most popular and well researched one at this point. There's definitely tons of other less researched rules that are as interesting.