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Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by xaedes on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:51PM (#24832881)
Without anyone performing the necessary pattern transformations to make it "work" this will be very static and boring...

With computer in GOL you have GOL which will do the pattern transformations.

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Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by zamadatix on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:14AM (#24833864)
Nothing about the rules of GOL performs the necessary pattern transformations. You could say the pebbles follow the rules of GOL and put some energy into performing those transformations. This is what a computer does with GOL.
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