Computation: finite and infinite machines
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ACMOS'10 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Automatic control, modelling & simulation
Cellular automata and the quest for nontrivial artificial self-reproduction
CMC'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Membrane computing
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The game of Life1 involves forms built out of simple birth and death rules which a computer puts through a series of rapid transformations. This game was invented by John Horton Conway and recently introduced in Scientific American by Martin Gardner. Many computers have been programmed to play the game of Life. In this paper we shall show how to return the compliment by making Life forms that can imitate computers. Then we shall see that many remarkable consequences follow from the existence of such constructions. Further we shall see that in Life there exists the possibility of organisms with the ability to duplicate themselves, to reproduce. It has even been suggested that the universe itself is space-time granular and that the future although completely deterministic is unpredic-table, being its own fastest simulation.