Re:Saturn moon 'able to support life'
by wfn on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:44PM
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How about cellular automata simulating (spoiler) complex life forms in many dimensions, implemented in large polysaccharide constructions? :) (Greg Egan's "Wang's Carpets", later incorporated as a chapter into his "Diaspora".) http://bookre.org/reader?file=222997&pg=1 (http://archive.is/ocAgN)
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Re:Saturn moon 'able to support life'
by pavel_lishin on Saturday April 15, 2017 @09:34PM
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I always found that to be a little sad. iirc, the Carpets in the story are completely deterministic - while there is life there, it will always unambiguously lack free will. (Though I suppose they'll never know it.)