I know about it, I’ve seen videos of it, but I have no idea how it works, or why it’s important. I mainly don’t get why it’s become to infamous.
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there is a game. it looks a lot like checkers or othello. there are only 4 rules and no players.
when you run the four rules the board changes to a new state. run the 4 rules, new state, run the 4 rules, new state. repeat over and over and over.
now when we watch those 4 rules being run over and over we suddenly find a whole bunch of things happening that the 4 rules don’t imply should happen.
it’s the stuff that happens we find amazing. like for example, you can make a “computer” that can play playstation or xbox games in a big enough version of CGOL
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