Episode 317 - Cellular Automata and Artificial Life
Today’s discussion is on Cellular Automata by looking at Conway’s Game of Life, William Poundstone’s “The Recursive Universe” and Stephen Wolframs “A New Kind of Science”. We run into concepts like artificial life, Von Neumann probes, and more!
Links
The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone
Gaming the Vote by William Poundstone
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
We are Legion by Dennis Taylor
Saharan (Omio) - Life within Life within Life…
Mise en Abime (image within image)
EdLab at Columbia University
Rule 110 (Turing Complete Simple Automata)
Glider (Game of Life)
Spaceship (Game of Life)
Numberphile - John Conway himself on the Game of Life
