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 significance is it showed that very simple rules that create very advanced emergent behaviors. This has implications for all sorts of fields, but especially when discussing things like early life, and biological processes.

All sorts of very advanced including some self replicating patterns can form despite the fact the rules are very basic.

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