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Matthew
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University of Toledo
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Wow, best argument for the Big Bang vs. God I've ever seen.
Even if not intentional, I'm using that.
I think I've actually played something like the Conway's simulation thing. Isn't it something like, a dot by itself dies by loneliness, a dot surrounded by several dots dies from overcrowding, and all other inbetween combinations multiply? Maybe it's not the same thing but if it's not it's surely similar.
Also Mt. Covonaco isn't a very good name for the game, I thought that was just the joke name of the mountain lol
Then lets change the name lol
Well... I don't quite agree with the premises.
Though I agree that we are nothing but a random coincidence (and a small one at that), the "set of rules" by which the universe goes is much larger (to the date not completely found out), complicated (to the date not completely understood too!) and interrelated than those of the "game of life". Let's just for a moment assume that you create such a big game of life, it would still behave as a simple computer program. Stimulus such as neighboring cells will ALWAYS (capitalization for dramatic effect) have the same consequence, and the movementes (make it 5000 or 5 billion) would ALWAYS (idem) be random.
The fact that makes life sentient is the capacity to react in ways not "corresponding" to those of the stimulus, and to move and act not randomly.
Let me clarify. Why don't we assume we are actually nothing but a big game of life... after let's say... 5000 turns? we would have realized which conditions define multiplication, and which define life or death... and we would stop mopving randomly, and start moving towars our goal (be it whichever of the three). The computer program, would not. They would keep on moving at random even if it costs them their "life"...
I don't... have I made myself clear? any opinions appreciated ^^
What are we at our core but a bunch of elements and atoms? All that makes you who you are are a bunch of chemicals in your brain telling you what and what not to do. Nothing in this world is completely random, everything follows a set a rules. At it's very base people theorize that the universe is made of strings, that are either open or closed (At least, that's what I remember string theory being). All things can be explained through physics. Just as in Conway's game of life, everything can be explained by those three different rules.
You do what you do because your brain commands you to think. And in your brain are a set of chemicals that respond to outside stimuli. Think of yourself as a robot, that's running through a maze. You've been programmed to run through the maze and not run into any walls. It doesn't mean you have free will. Everything that you do, in a sense, is programmed. The brain is just a big fat computer program. It tells you when you when to do something based on things you've experienced in the past, and the stimuli you're receiving in the present. You're sentience is just the result of the makeup of your brain. Your brain is still a computer program, at it's base.
Now, why can't we emulate that in Conway's game of life. I know it's a ridiculous notion and I'm not 100% serious with this but it's a nice little though isn't it? Conway's game of life isn't random, it follows rules just like our universe does. Now, by some crazy chance, the dots aligned themselves in a way to create an object that would move and get bigger by consuming another group of dots that act as food for the other dot, that only exist at certain points on a large group of dots that produce the groups of dots that the first group of dots eat... This process could go on until something that realizes it exists based on the dot makeup, just like your brain does for you.
This is all based on the fact that nothing in Conways game of life isn't random, because it isn't random.
KillerWaffles
I think I might have to change my under garments.