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NEW VISTAS. "Wade’s discovery could help devise ways to build a molecular-scale computer, starting from tiny components like the cells in Life. “This discovery is helping us understand the world of constructing things from dumb components." https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

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

SIMPLICITY GENERATES COMPLEXITY. "A first for the game, the replicator demonstrates how astounding complexity can arise from simple beginnings and processes – an echo of life’s origins, perhaps." https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

EXPANSION TO 3D. "But let us expand the two-dimensional hexagonal grid into three dimensions...Conway's entire universe, or an infinite number of parallel universes, can be contained with time-space barriers." https://lnkd.in/dN_g3Fs View in LinkedIn

GROUND-BREAKING. "When Wade posted his self-replicating mathematical organism on a Life community website on 18 May, it sparked a wave of excitement. “This is truly ground-breaking work,” wrote a fellow Life enthusiast, Adam Goucher, on the website Game of Life News. “In fact, this is arguably the single most impressive and important pattern ever devised.” https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

GEMINI STATS VS LIFE. "And it replicates in only 34 million generations?! The best estimate so far for a typical UCC-based Life replicator was 10^18 generations. I see that you have removed all but the bare minimum -- that is probably the simplest possible self-replicator, and very elegant, too. Well, congratulations -- you have single-handedly beaten the collaborative effort between myself, Dave Greene and Paul Chapman to realise a Life replicator." https://lnkd.in/dpf5iAu View in LinkedIn