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Cool and all that, but isn't this... practically and intellectually useless? Surely, you can build a computer using pebbles on the sea shore by aligning them in the specific order. How is that surprising?
You can’t build a computer with pebbles though? OP is using basic Conway laws to build on logic gates.
But can it run Doom?
Yes. I don't expect anyone can simulate that at real-time speed though (unless they take a lot of shortcuts, e.g. simulating at a higher level, which becomes a bit pointless).
It’s interesting watching the messy complexity resolve into patterns and order as you zoom out. It’s reminiscent of what it feels like to dig deeply into a metabolic or reproductive process in a cell and be overcome with the sheer complexity of it, then look at the back of your hand and realize it’s all happening right there, now. Basically it feels a bit like life.
The first time I heard of Conway's Game of Life I was blown away. It was an example of potentially incredible complexity that can be arranged to large scale patterns emerge. It was the first time I took the idea of the universe being simulated (or created) seriously. Even more fascinating for me is the idea that we can't analytically calculate the outcome. To find out what happens we have to simulate it. Even if the…
All of this is happening in my body right now so i can type these letters: WTF
Cool and all that, but isn't this... practically and intellectually useless? Surely, you can build a computer using pebbles on the sea shore by aligning them in the specific order. How is that surprising?
Have you ever thought about what life is about for other people? Do you only think about eating, drinking, sleeping and exercise? I would counter your question by asking, isn't your comment here practically and intellectually useless?
We need more than that.
We need breathing, pissing, shitting, fighting, and sex.
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You can’t build a computer with pebbles though? OP is using basic Conway laws to build on logic gates.
What's to stop you from making logic gates out of patterns of pebbles on a beach exactly?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can’t build a computer with pebbles though? OP is using basic Conway laws to build on logic gates.
What's to stop you from making logic gates out of patterns of pebbles on a beach exactly?
With computer in GOL you have GOL which will do the pattern transformations.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can’t build a computer with pebbles though? OP is using basic Conway laws to build on logic gates.
What's to stop you from making logic gates out of patterns of pebbles on a beach exactly?
I have always wondered if intelligence could emerge from a game of life, given a massive board and sufficient random seeds.
I wonder what the most elegant Turing-complete universe is. I believe it to be a system based on collision-based computing [1]. My hunch is this: Matter and Energy have a duality that is analogous to code and data. Einstein likened the speed of light to the speed of information. Wolfram/Toffoli/Fredkin or well, any other Cellular Automata specialist, studied the rate of propagation in CA, Lyapunov exponents. [2] Now…
So.. LISP?