On 18 Mar 2014, at 16:14, John Clark wrote:
And I'm the one who is supposed to be confused??? There is not one drop of Quantum Mechanics or probability in the Game of Life, it is 100% classical mechanics, and yet there CAN be 2 or more ways to get to a given macrostate. It's 100% deterministic so if I show you a Game of Life pattern you can calculate what it's future evolution will be (there doesn't seem to be anything analogous to chaos in the Game) but you can't figure out it's history was, or at least not a unique history.
Unless the game of life is emulated by a reversible universal machine, in which case by reversing that reversible machine, you will find back the game of life pattern you started with. And the physical evidences are that the core physical laws are reversible (with both empirical and comp evidences).
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