intelligent design
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- deep_throat0
anybody still juvenile enough to believe that there must be a single, cogent, concsience, moral, being to design life (though i think most of us are mature enough not to fall for that one) should take a look at the work of the mathmetician John Conway, and his game of life.
http://www.math.com/students/won…
It demonstrates how complexity can emerge out of the most chaotic "simplicity" in an infinite universe with inifite interrations and variations. to quote:
"[the life gam] is the study of how elaborate patterns and behaviors can emerge from very simple rules. It helps us understand, for example, how the petals on a rose or the stripes on a zebra can arise from a tissue of living cells growing together. It can even help us understand the diversity of life that has evolved on earth."
Theoretically, it is absolutely possible, to use the rules of Conways Life Game, to build a supercomputer, simply by the actions of cells dictated by the rule "if cell has three neigbours, die, if two replicate, if one die".
Theoretically if you had an infinite number of Life gameboards, whose size was inifintily big - then you can be guaranteed that one of them will be a supercomputer.
The concept is similar to an inifinite number of monkeys on an infnite number of typewriters producing the works of shakespeare.
In fact, some starting patterns for life the life game have been used to generate only prime numbers. A basic computer.
to quote again:
" A universal constructor can even be built. This is a pattern that can take a blueprint for some other Life pattern (or its own) and build that pattern. No one has built this yet, since it would be very large, but it has been shown to be possible. This means that Life patterns could exist that reproduce themselves. They could even modify their blueprints just as living things combine and mutate their genes. Who can say what would develop in a large enough universe of reproducing Life patterns?"
What intelligent desingers don't understand when they gawk at DNA or cells, is the boundlessness of our universe. amongst a see of universes,
it's another aesthetic way of looking at existent, that appreciates how quickly and naturally complex patterns emerges and flourish from the simplest of beginnings.
Who needs god anyway????