Pleased to say I've completely solved Conway's Game of Life for a finite, toroidally connected square field of side 1
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I guess Life patterns are generally incredibly unstable, so typically the result when two patterns meet is just ruined chaos
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If there's a stable agar http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Agar and there's some kind of spacefiller http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Spacefiller … which quadratically fills space with that agar, then that pattern's likely to dominate the universe
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Specifically, whichever pattern satisfies these conditions and is also the least complex is going to be the one which occurs the most frequently in a sparse Life universe, and therefore dominate...?
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There'll be some confusion at the boundaries where these spacefillers meet and absorb other structures, or one another, but other than that, square light years of stable agar...?
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The problem is that when spacefillers encounter any noise at all, the noise propagates. Try putting the Max pattern file (http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Max ) into a simulator (https://copy.sh/life/ ) with a single 2x2 still life somewhere in space and watch the agar dissolve into chaos.
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Dang, so is there no such thing as a stable structure in Life? As in, something which resists/suppresses perturbations?
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