Eli5: What’s the significance of Conway’s Game Of Life?

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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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The primary significance of the “game” is that very simple rules can create systems of breathtaking complexity. The game only has four basic rules, and yet you can create oscillators, glider guns, and even ultimately a general purpose computer. If so few rules can create a computer, what is possible with the few laws of physics that the particles and waves of our universe obey?

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