Or are the simple rules themselves the "magic dust". These turing complete structures show up everywhere and are in many ways equivalent.
Perhaps this underlying structure is the foundation of our metaphysics and our reality is just one node of it's permutative potentiality. The simple rules of GoL are just an emergent reflection of the fundemental nature of meta-reality. These types of relfections within our neural and semantic structures may be the necessary "magic dust" for consciousness to emerge.
Perhaps this underlying structure is the foundation of our metaphysics and our reality is just one node of it's permutative potentiality. The simple rules of GoL are just an emergent reflection of the fundemental nature of meta-reality. These types of relfections within our neural and semantic structures may be the necessary "magic dust" for consciousness to emerge.