Let’s BUILD a COMPUTER in CONWAY's GAME of LIFE ⠠⠵

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Shared October 5, 2020

A short documentary on Conway's Game of Life, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its original publication on the October 1970 issue of Scientific American.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:39 - Conway's Game of Life
00:05:55 - Logic Gates
00:12:31 - Turing Completeness
00:18:14 - Conclusion
00:20:26 - Credits

●●● Credits ●●●
Script, Voice, Editing: Alan Zucconi
Script Supervision: James Donohue

"Life in Life" segment inspired by @Phillip Bradbury
Conway patter by xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2293/

Music: Jingle Punks - "Back of the Room Hang"
Music: C418 - "Cat" (Minecraft Volume Alpha)

This video was made possible by the support of many patrons on Patreon.

●●● References ●●●
(1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
(2) http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/d...
(3) https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.ph...
(4) https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/80...
(5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbO0t... by @legomasta99
(6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DmtK... by Devin Danko
(7) https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230
(8) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....
(9) https://www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-co...
(10) https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/qu...
(11) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

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