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First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life
Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"
Fortunately the glider gun is already discovered, so at least we have a means of killing this new self replicating entity. ;)
.: Max Romantschuk
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Self Replicating post!
Self Replicating post!
uh oh mutation...
OMG!!... What have I done... it is already mutating and evolving.
;-D
Elf Replicating Ghost
From the article:
In fact, this is arguably the single most impressive and important pattern ever devised.
Really? Not the universal Turing machine pattern, or the pattern that emulates the game of life itself? Those both seem more impressive to me.
Well, he did say "arguably", which is arguably the worst weasel word in the history of mankind.
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This is slashdot -- some people here think that's actually how it works, while many more think births are all faked by the government, and still more are arguing for more openness in the early stages of the process.
What, you never landed on the "you've had a baby, collect presents" block?
I suppose there wasn't a loop from selling the kids to having the kids go to "start".
Oh man, that just made me get uneasy there for a while. Fantastic piece of writing you have done! You really should consider building that skill up and start submitting manuscripts.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
That's obviously intelligent design. Burn the heathen!
IBM has already developed a high-fidelity 3-D copier. They scrapped the project when they realized they would likely sell only two units.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
It's Hannah Montana.
OH GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!?
Kill it with fire, kill it with fire!
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
I agree. Weaseling out of things is an important thing to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.