Male 1: Yes, in 1970. John Conway showed that even though life maybe battling in its complexity. The complexity arises from simple rules. The evidence came from the game which results was so unpredictable that they called it Life.
Life has the most basic of ingredients. A board with the grid of squares filled with counters. The faith of each counter was governed by rules. Unlike our universe that was just three.
Male 2: I have this idea that, if you have simple rules but not too simple. Then probably, things would complexity would just developed.
We think that the rules and played around and hope something interested what happen. And eventually, we settle on the particular set of rules that we did. They were sort of slightly modeled on real life.
Male 1: The three rules they arrived at, w here the equivalents of birth, death and survival. What would happen to any particular square depended on its neighbors? An empty square with exactly three counters around it, would give birth. So, a new counter is added to a board. Any counter with a two few neighbors with die of isolation and are removed from the board.
A counter with too many neighbors would die of suffocation and also, be remove. At any counter would just two or three neighbors will survive. Staying exactly as it was.
With only these most basic rules unpredictable and complex pattern evolved. The board seems to produce creatures from nowhere, creatures that crawled, creatures that find out small creatures. A pumps that looks likes primitive, hot creatures that spewed out an endless chain offspring.
Male 2: My little life gain is surprising because from the simple rules, one would not find and expect to find things that move in a source of purposive manner and surprises. That is has why we call it life then mix life to that timely extent, like a little many universe.
Male 1: Science dismantled the notion of life created with a purpose. In this rational universe, this no need for a creature.
Male 2: There is no design in life, no design or whatsoever. It behaves interestingly just a consequence of random behavior.
Male 1: In this random universe, there is no special purpose in our evolution. We have simply the result of atoms, time, and mathematics.
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