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From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (I J Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.cell-automata
Subject: Winning Ways (again)
Message-ID: <1991May8.203654.7838@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 91 20:36:54 GMT
Reply-To: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (I J Palmer)
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I sort of lost contact with this news group (Easter and all that) and so
don't know how the 'Winning Ways ...' thing ended, but (not wishing to bring
back the dead) something struck me as I was sitting there (as one does)
and that is this ...

Conway states that Life is `Universal' in that you give him a problem, and
he can construct a Life thingy to solve it (if it is solvable). But, I say,
what about getting Life to find (at this point I'd like to point out the
nice allignment of Life (the word) in this paragraph) a `Garden of Eden' or
Orphan (pad pad..) Life pattern. This is, I think, a computable problem
which, by definition, Life (it had to stop somewhere) can not solve !!!!

Or perhapse I'm thick, but if this is the case where does my logic (eek)
fall down ?????

I appologise in advance for my signature...

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