[...] Instead, they think, “As smart as I am, I have only this dim understanding of the universe. Imagine how smart I would have to be to create it! Truly, God is wonderful beyond comprehension.”
“Wonderful” I could believe, but I don’t think John Horton Conway is actually wonderful beyond comprehension. To make an analogy.
“Wonderful” I could believe, but I don’t think John Horton Conway is actually wonderful beyond comprehension. To make an analogy.
If Conway used the Turing-completeness of Life to create within it a universe like our own, he would be wonderful beyond my comprehension :).
If Flatland would do, he could do it ‘naturally’ given enough scale and time. (: