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Not a great analogy, since Game of Life in Game of Life didn't emerge, it was programmed by a human.
by WithinReason 2y ago
Not a great analogy, since Game of Life in Game of Life didn't emerge, it was programmed by a human.
- mcphage 2y agoIsn't that kinda the point? Conway designed the rules of the Game of Life, that was entirely his doing. But he didn't design any of the consequences of those rules—oscillators, gliders, glider guns, garden of edens, the fact that it's Turning complete. All of those exist as a consequence of the rules he did design, but nowhere are they specified in those rules.
- dartos 2y agoArguably, the fact that the game of life was made is an emergent property of biology, and thus chemistry, and thus physics, etc.