See this comment and its links on what the long-term future of an infinite randomly-initialized GoL grid looks like. In brief, an infinite field of “ash”, random oscillating or fixed patterns, which would likely eventually(after an exponentially long time?) be invaded by self-replicators.
I conjecture that it will take longer for these patterns to appear in Life than in our universe, though. In our universe we got intelligent by bootstrapping off of simpler replicators, I’m not sure if Life is set up to make that possible/likely...
See this comment and its links on what the long-term future of an infinite randomly-initialized GoL grid looks like. In brief, an infinite field of “ash”, random oscillating or fixed patterns, which would likely eventually(after an exponentially long time?) be invaded by self-replicators.
I conjecture that it will take longer for these patterns to appear in Life than in our universe, though. In our universe we got intelligent by bootstrapping off of simpler replicators, I’m not sure if Life is set up to make that possible/likely...