intelligent design
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discpler, that quote is geniunely urs, pure and uneditted. Check my first post in this therad then go back about ten posts or so. i spoke in reply to that.
anyway...
"Conway's game of Life is able to represent a Universal Turing Machine (a computer that is able to run any program). The problem is that UTMs need to be programmed."
You completely fail to understand Conway's life game, (probably cos you're so very dense).
Conway's life game is an evolution system. You start with a seemingly random splattering of dots (i'll call them dots and not cells because that seems to be confusing you). Those dots are subjet to rules that simulate "rules" (not laws) of the universe. What happens to these dots when processed over time is that they grow/evolve and becoming, to subjective human interpretation, highly complex systems - such as prime number generating machines.
" And where does the program come from?"
Right, the "programme" for a prime number generating machine does come from humans. But that's because man, by trial and error, experiments with thousands of starting patterns of dots, one such pattern will eventually lead to a prime numbre generating machine. Others will be still born and result in nothing. Others will do something else, completely unexpected.
However, the analogy that you seem to be finding difficult to grasp, is that you can see through the Life Game, that if you had an infinite number of life games, genereating an infinite number of patterns, over an infinite time period - somewhere, sometime, a prime number generating machine will be "born". Because at some point, the one, simple combination of dots that generates the machine will have been randomly hit.
This is another aesthetic appreciation of a universe in which something as seemingly complex as human emotion, can be generated from a base startin poin. because, it just seems to me, that you have trouble appreciating how a simple random starting point can create order (as experienced through human subjectivity).
Conway's Life Game is simply a demonstration of this. i am not trying to explain the ins and outs of a cell or IC or anything. Just appreciate, the concept, that from a few dots, all sorts of mad shit can happen.