Great post.
The physics of GoL determine the technology available for an intelligent life form in the universe, and the limit of that technology may not be sufficient to ensure the eternal survival of that lifeform. But if that is the case in the GoL universe, the same might not be true 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.