The Game of Life

By Design Document, Steven Chen, Juan Pablo de la Cruz Gutiérrez, Vincenzo Zarrillo, John H. Conway. 2007

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Space-Time Embedded Intelligence (2012, background): “It is also instructive to envision the environment as a cellular automaton (e.g., the Game of Life [1]), in which an agent is represented as a particular set of cells whose initial state is specified by the initial policy π1 (perhaps an √ l̃× √ l̃ square of cells).”
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