Let’s BUILD a COMPUTER in CONWAY's GAME of LIFE ⠠⠵
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Published 2020-10-05
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:39 - Conway's Game of Life
00:05:55 - Logic Gates
00:12:31 - Turing Completeness
00:18:14 - Conclusion
00:20:26 - Credits
●●● Credits ●●●
Script, Voice, Editing: Alan Zucconi
Script Supervision: James Donohue
"Life in Life" segment inspired by @mrphlip
Conway patter by xkcd: xkcd.com/2293/
Music: Jingle Punks - "Back of the Room Hang"
Music: C418 - "Cat" (Minecraft Volume Alpha)
This video was made possible by the support of many patrons on Patreon.
●●● References ●●●
(1) www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematical-ga…
(2) cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/VonNeumann.pdf
(3) www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_Volu…
(4) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800290.811303
(5) • [Minecraft Computer Engineering] - Qu... by @legomasta99
(6) • BABA IS LIFE v1: Conway's Game of Lif... by Devin Danko
(7) doi.org/10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230
(8) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-0129-…
(9) www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-computer
(10) codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a…
(11) www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horto…
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All Comments (21)
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Conway did what nobody else could do: Trick mathmaticians into doing pixel art.
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I find it really crazy that you can essentially replicate the game of life infinitely like a fractal.
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holy shit my jaw dropped when i saw the life simulating life
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Thanos: I use the stones to destroy the stones Human: I use the computer to create the computer.
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Life is Turing complete because we can build a Turing complete Computer inside it. Q.E.D.
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That final pattern hits hard :'(
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I think we should respect Conways legacy by not saying that the Game of Life was his legacy! Conway at first hated the popularity the game received, and though he did soften up to it by the end, wished he would be remembered by all his other mathematical achievements and not just this one thing. He really did consider the GOL to a be a minor achievement in his life!
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The cosmic horror in that Life in Life. Like realizing you're inside a simulation, within a simulation. I can feel it.
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The waving stickman flying off as a glider 😭
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That clip of life playing inside of life blew my mind. You could just copy this pattern into life in life and get life in life in life.
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Ah yes, enslaved matrix
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This part where the tiny Conway's soul becomes a glider is brilliant.
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ohhh shit I love the ending - the man himself turning into a single glider. poetic
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Perfect! This video has that special "something" that moves people's curiosity. The best feeling in YouTube is clicking a random video and finding an absolute gem. Keep making stuff like this!
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I need to ask you: did you run Life inside Life? Or did you just use a clip? That concept is very fascinating
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Computer in Conways Game of Life in Baba is you in Minecraft? Technically possible but...no
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20:00 Beautifully poetic
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Jesus how does this video only have 4 thousand views!
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I've been fascinated with Conway's Game of Life since being briefly exposed to it in college as just a silly game in an astronomy class to show how complexity could evolve through very simple rules. This video was a fantastic tour de force through the most basic blinkers, that anybody could discover, to the unimaginably complicated creation of Life itself and to top it off with an amazingly simple and captivating explanation of how one could begin to build logic gates!! Great video!!! Very touching and sweet ending too :)
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"Yeah but can it run DOOM?" Proceeds to simulate itself "Nevermind this is way cooler"
