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The Game of Life - Is There Purpose?

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The Game of Life: playing around with the rules of a game modeled on real life - birth, life and death. So is...
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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This guy is from Nelson, New Zealand. He is the Man.
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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most of them direct towards the bottom right corner
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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Well this is part of a much longer documentary that does not agree completely with the statements about the life game, but uses it to explore greater theories. If any of you can spare the time, 48minutes, I suggest you watch the entire video called "What We Still Don't Know" by Martin Rees; it is readily available on Google video. I realize 48 minutes is a long time for most of us who cannot handle anything beyond instant gratification, so if you cannot, in the future, please refrain from commenting. The film does not suggest Conway's answer is the absolute, only, or correct answer.
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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this makes no sense. How can life (the game) have no design yet the results are base on design rules and restrictions for specific calculation and actions? And the narrator try to apply this logic to reality?!
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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Doesn't he also realize he had to think about and construct rules, which they outlined in detail. The "game" only exists and reacts due to those rules. I believe much more in science than god, but doesn't that represent a spark or creator?
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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Conway's game of life is also provably turing complete. Which means that you can build a modern computer with it (though it may run unbelievably slow). Another example that simply moving bits around with simple rules can allow for the dizzying complexity that is the modern CPU. http://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Turin g_complete
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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This is the basis of "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram.
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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John Conway is a mathematician, not a biologist. The Game of Life is a game, not meant to be a model or representation of life or its systems. I think this was just a demonstration that "complexity" can arise from simplicity, although the narrator spun it up a bit.
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By: Robber More than a year ago
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This sort of argument sounds convincing, on the surface. Biologists seem to think this is a valid way to 'evolve' life. However, engineers who ACTUALLY design things realize that complex systems, that is, truly complex systems, do not operate like this. www.leestrobel.com
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By: Guest More than a year ago
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