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Conway's Life (usually referred to simply as Life) is a cellular automaton which uses a 2-dimensional array, variously describable as a video game, or the focus of a field of mathematical research.

Further reading

  • William Poundstone, The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge, William Morrow, New York. 1985 - interesting book which uses Life as the starting point for a meditation about the way that simple laws can produce complex behavior

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