/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16081797
Emergent property.
See gif.
There is nothing in rules of game of life that specify particle-like objects, yet "gliders" - easily recognizable, very localized phenomenons exist in this automata.

Wave-like with the focus on the word "like" - universe in its mechanics is not exactly like a wave on a lake - this alone is not enough to explain all of it - but it's similar enough for wave-like behavior to be very prominent in all of our measurements.

Conway's Game of Life

>>15095832
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>>15095868
The game of life has revealed me how complexity can arise from a couple of simple rules. If you make it big enough and fill it with noise, there is a non zero chance that picrel will just happen to exist at some point.

Is there a way to generalize the idea of cellular automata to continuous space and time or is that just an automata?

>>12025593
I'd highly recommend reading up on Conway's Game of Life.
That thing looks simple, but it's fucking Turing complete.
If you can computationally simulate the universe, you could do it in this.
You don't need some benevolent creator to create something complex.
The anthropic principle and a probably unbounded number of "attempts" suffice to explain it.

There are light speed in Conway's Game of life.
Are there momentum or energy conservation in the game?

>>11731484
He's basically saying he's proven our universe functions as a 3 dimensional cellular automata. Like a giant 3D version of Conway's game of life, but with some varies rules.

Because it's a cellular automata, you can create "other" variations of cellular automatas, examine them, and if you discover a new rules that can be applies to all automatas, then they can be applies to physics in our universe as well.

It's a new approach to discovering new physics. Instead of trying to examine our own universe, we create micro universes and examine them instead.

R.I.P. John Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway#Death

>pic related

Hello fellow /sci/bros, I recently started learning about cellular automata and they're absolutely fascinating, Conway's GoL being an obvious example. My question is how do i run my own simulations? I want to test a bunch of stuff and see what happens. Is there software for simulating TGoL on one's computer, preferrably with a gui? Also, as a follow-up, can any of you recommend some books on cellular automata?

>>9450501
This. Brainlets from shitty universities ITT will never understand that math is a minor subdiscipline of CS. Pic related.

>>8041831
all yours

>>7946523
>What does the game of life simulate exactly?

Waves.

>>7768122

>I wanna prove you right

>>7268256

So the simulation argument. If it makes sense that consciousness could emerge from a system that is simulated on a computer, why does the simulation even need to be running for the consciousness to emerge?

It seems to make sense that if you were to perfectly simulate a human brain on a computer, it would be conscious in the same way that a real human brain is. But, assuming that the simulation is deterministic, the result of that simulation could be determined at any time, and in some sense was "predetermined" before the simulation even ran. Does that not mean that the resulting consciousness would exist even without running the simulation?

If this way of thinking is valid, it would not only explain why our universe "exists" on the most fundamental level, but also imply that every possible universe, with any imaginable set of laws, in any number of dimensions, would exist as well. Additionally, every possible consciousness that could hypothetically exists in one of these "universes" DOES exist in the same way that we do.

Thoughts?

>>7012315
Not exactly.

Basically the idea is that the universe might be some really grand version of Conway's game of life, where fundamental particles and other things we take for granted are actually emergent structures that occur in the cellular automation. It's kind of like how in Conway's game of life structures like gliders and oscillators will tend to manifest themselves out of randomness.

Okay, let me see if I got this right. I'm trying to determine a set that includes all possible patterns of any life-like cellular automata:
Where Z^2 is the 2-dimensional lattice, and S is the set of states (i.e. S = {0,1}).
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\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{Z}^2\cdot S)
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If I am correct, this set contain all possible patterns in any life-like cellular automata.

>>6355993
This program gets kind of overlooked when it's put at the same level as loops and h-games. Hoping for an intelligent discussion about cellular automaton and how it can be used in music creation,

what does /sci/ know about cellular automatons? what's a good read to start with?

I got partway into Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science' and then decided to look up some reviews before dedicating myself to finishing the rest and now maybe i think i need some second opinions as to where to start learning bout dis shit.

I see Cellular Evolutionary Algorithms use GA mating on CAs, but I can't find any papers out there on encoding a genotype as a CA then using those rules for mutation/crossover.

Anyone know of any?