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Conway’s Game of Life<br />

This is a popular example of a cellular automaton. One interacts with the Game of Life<br />

by creating an initial configuration <strong>and</strong> observing how it evolves, which makes it a socalled<br />

zero person game. It provides an example of emergence <strong>and</strong> self-organization.<br />

It is interesting <strong>for</strong> computer scientists, physicists, biologists, biochemists, economists,<br />

mathematicians, philosophers, generative scientists <strong>and</strong> others to observe the way that<br />

complex patterns can emerge from the implementation of very simple rules.<br />

Dennis Bohle 1<br />

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<strong>Institute</strong> <strong>for</strong> Mathematics,<br />

Westfälische Wilhelms-University,<br />

Münster<br />

dennis.bohle@<br />

uni-muenster.de<br />

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