"An intelligent creature could be HUGE."
and some other post:
"t's take a long time to do anything."
I think a lot of people are mistaking a "cell" in this universe for being comparable to... I guess a "cell" in biology, or something, and comparing each step in the program to... I don't know what people are thinking exactly here (a second?). But I think for comparison to our physics (and any kind of biology or intelligence that we would care about), each cell is a quark, and each tick is equivalent to a Planck time. This doesn't make the sentient creatures we're hypothesizing big and slow, it just means they're the same size and speed that we are.
Does my post give you the impression that I was mistaking a cell for being something like a cell in our universe?
Conway’s Game of Life is Turing-complete. Therefore, it is possible to create an AI in it. If you created a 3^^3 by 3^^3 Life board, setting the initial state at random, presumably somewhere an AI would be created. Would this AI somehow take over the whole game board, if given enough time?
Would this be visible from the top, as it were?
EDIT: I probably meant 3^^^3, sorry. Also, by generating at random, I meant 50% chance on. But any other chance would work too, I suspect.