In my random reading on the subject complexity as expressed in the brilliant simulation – The Game of Life, by the late mathematician John Conway, I came upon this Master’s Thesis – Complexity Properties of the Cellular Automaton Game of Life (pdx.edu)
This truly insightful work would qualify as a doctoral dissertation, in my opinion. The author is Andreas Rechsteiner of Portland State University (11.14.95). Although this was written some time ago, the analysis and conclusions are truly gems and shed light on the unanswered questions at to how the Game of Life (GOL) operates, lifting the veil a bit over the ultimate discovery of a New Law of Complexity which exists contrary to the entropic forces of the Second Law of Thermodynamics…Read More
