@wtgowers Could you help a lay person understand at the very basic level, Conway’s Game of Life? Or at least its significance? Every time I try I am told it is an example of circular automata which, to put it mildly, isn’t much help.
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then proceeds in stages according to the following rules. Call a cell "live" if it has a cross in it. Suppose at stage n a cell is live. Then at stage n+1 it will remain live if two or three of its four neighbours is live, and otherwise it will die (that is, cease to be live). 3/
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Thanks for pointing this out to me. I have added a note to that effect (though how prominent it will be in the thread I'm not sure).
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... and what about the rebirths for dead cells surrounded by three live cells?
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