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Song: "The Laws of Life"
Feb. 23rd, 2006 06:10 pmJohn H. Conway's Game of Life, that is... or is it?
I explained my take on this to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
batshua recently, but it's been my take on it for quite some time, and it's worth a song (MP3). Abstruse technical jargon has been omitted for the sake of the novice, but the wise will, I think, know exactly where — besides cellular automata theory, of course — this is coming from.
I have, since I knew enough to notice, always been struck by the way in which these concepts show themselves so readily in even the simplest worlds we can construct. For me, this stands in stark contrast to the abstrusion with which they have traditionally been presented. It also suggests to me that those people who claim that the world, being mysterious and sacred, therefore can't be made of math, perhaps ought to learn some more math before leaping to such a conclusion.
I explained my take on this to
batshua recently, but it's been my take on it for quite some time, and it's worth a song (MP3). Abstruse technical jargon has been omitted for the sake of the novice, but the wise will, I think, know exactly where — besides cellular automata theory, of course — this is coming from.I have, since I knew enough to notice, always been struck by the way in which these concepts show themselves so readily in even the simplest worlds we can construct. For me, this stands in stark contrast to the abstrusion with which they have traditionally been presented. It also suggests to me that those people who claim that the world, being mysterious and sacred, therefore can't be made of math, perhaps ought to learn some more math before leaping to such a conclusion.
