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SIMPLE SYSTEM. "Self-replication in Conway's Life has been a topic for discussion and research from the very beginning, over forty years ago now (!). The original purpose of Conway's Life was to find a simplification of John von Neumann's self-replicating machine designs, which used a CA rule with 29 states." https://lnkd.in/dNTQG9j View in LinkedIn

LAUDED ACHIEVEMENT. "Because Wade’s replicator copies itself piece by piece, it is analogous to a photocopier rather than a living cell...because it shows there are multiple ways of solving the same problem. It’s a very impressive technical achievement.” https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

THE GAME OF LIFE. "Ever since its publication, Conway's Game of Life has attracted much interest, because of the surprising ways in which the patterns can evolve." https://lnkd.in/dzs-Kxk View in LinkedIn

"SIMPLE COMPLEXITY. Gemini’s implications extend to the real world. “There’s a fascination with the complexity that is coming out of these incredibly simple rules,” says Susan Stepney, a computer scientist at the University of York, UK, who ran Gemini inside Life, at New Scientist‘s behest. “Eventually that leads on to biology, putting simple atoms together to make complex life.” https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

SMALL GENERATING HUGE. "A year before Conway's paper, Konrad Zuse - a german computer scientist - created Digital Physics where he suggests that the universe could be discrete (finite and fundamentally composed only of finite numbers) and the output of a huge cellular automaton!" https://lnkd.in/d3B2FKW View in LinkedIn

MIND GAMES. "When Arabidopsis plants were exposed to a range of these atypical light–dark cycles, floral responses were not determined by the number of light or dark hours within a cycle but reflected how much transcription of the clock-controlled gene CO coincided with light." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

ENTRAINMENT. "One of the fundamental properties of the circadian clock is that it will advance or delay its phase (that is, shift its rhythm forward or back relative to dawn and dusk) when entrained to light–dark cycles that are either longer or shorter than 24 h, respectively." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

MUTANTS. "Abnormal function of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis mutants was correlated with defective floral responses to photoperiod. For example, the short-period mutant timing of cab 1-1 (toc1-1) flowered earlier than wild-type under short day conditions, whereas the long-period mutant zeitlupe (ztl) exhibited delayed flowering under long day conditions." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

FAR-RED LIGHT. "A circadian rhythm in light sensitivity in constant light can be seen when far-red light is added to a background of white fluorescent or red light indicating that the rhythm in light sensitivity continues to run in constant light." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

REDUCED SENSITIVITY. "For long day plants or light-dominant plants the situation is not quite as straightforward. Because sensitivity to night breaks is much reduced, it is very difficult to do night break experiments. Rhythms in response to an night break have been described in the long day plants but the pattern of response varies with the duration of the experimental dark period suggesting an interaction with the subsequent light period." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn