Reductionism, emergence, and levels of abstractions
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Certain Game of Life configurations create patterns. The most famous is the glider, a pattern of on and off cells that moves diagonally across the grid. It is possible to implement an arbitrary Turing machine by arranging Game of Life patterns. Computability theory applies to such Turing machines. Thus while not eluding the Game of Life rules, new laws (computability theory) that are independent of the Game of Life rules apply at the Turing machine level of abstraction — just as Schrödinger said.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/0707.4198 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007