I would also guess that a large enough game of life world would eventually give rise to intelligent civilization (especially after observing recent progress on designing ash-clearing machines in some random game of life hobbyist forum that I can’t find now; not sure if that should be a real update but I hadn’t realized that this was probably possible).
It’s not at all clear to me whether the game of life rules are actually simpler than our physics. I agree it does casually seem that way, but it seems incredibly hard to say right now.
I would also guess that a large enough game of life world would eventually give rise to intelligent civilization (especially after observing recent progress on designing ash-clearing machines in some random game of life hobbyist forum that I can’t find now; not sure if that should be a real update but I hadn’t realized that this was probably possible).
It’s not at all clear to me whether the game of life rules are actually simpler than our physics. I agree it does casually seem that way, but it seems incredibly hard to say right now.