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[unbibium]

I'd like to start a religion based on John Conway's game of Life. (not the board game with the little cars.)

It'd be hard to translate the rules into human behavior, I admit. But I think we could make decent religious icons out of such mythical beasts as the glider, the glider gun, the R-pentomino. Keep evil spirits away by hanging an eater on your door. That sort of thing.

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[grumblepants.livejournal.com]

Did you see the Turing machine that someone built using Conway's Life? Really, really awesome. I just did a quick search for it, but the site where it lives is down. Boo.

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[pentomino.livejournal.com]

In "The Armchair Universe" by A.K. Dewdney, there's a description of how this was done. At the time of publication, people were trying to do the same thing with one-dimensional cellular automata.