<div dir="auto">In Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway she summarizes how it took months (or perhaps years) to work through different sets of rules for the game of life. The goal was to find ones that produced Interesting behavior.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This was done by his group, and by hand as computers weren't readily available. Years later enough simulations had been run to prove it was a universal Turing machine.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The game eventually started to bother him as his other work was much more significant and got less attention.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Her book on Coxeter is also excellent.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Curt</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://siobhanroberts.com/">https://siobhanroberts.com/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:33 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I never cease to be surprised and fascinated watching simple
rules generate complex structure and dynamics.</p>
<p>I had a lot of complex reactions to this but I won't waste
anyone's bandwidth with my reflective rambling... <br>
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<p>Thanks for sharing...<br>
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<p>- Steve<br>
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