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		ajmurmann on June 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Langton's Ant Cellular automata and the Ant in particular have always been fascinating to me because of the complexity of behavior that emerges from very simple rules. This always has made me wonder if there are similarly simple rules at the foundation of our reality.

cr0sh on June 7, 2019 [–]

Well...you might give this book a read:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/

xcombelle on June 14, 2019 | [–]

As far as I know, the general consensus is that Stephen Wolfram is smart, but most what is write is crap especially in this book.

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