Complexity & Chaos 175
prepared to call ourselves animals, so should the little creatures which emerge within the game. We simply emerged in a similar but slightly more complex game.
This proposal would mean our Universe is entirely deterministic, our lives the result of a gigantic computer program that we live within and form part of. Chaos might make it impossible to predict the future without running the program and watching what happened, but the results would be inevitable, set in motion at the dawn of time. There is no place for free will in such a Universe, no place for reason. The world would simply be.
But a strange idea will come to our aid to show us the limits of computation and allow us to question whether we live in a predetermined world. This idea is Aleph 1 - something larger than infinity. And it is infinity we will explore next.
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Conway's Game of Life
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