Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is a book by Robert Sapolsky talks about CA!
Now CA doesn’t mean charted accountant at least this context!
It actually means cellular automata!
This whole concept was way over my head, but still is important to understand how replication occurs in machines!
Cellular automata (CA) were conceived in the 1940s by John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam at Los Alamos National Laboratory to model biological self-replication and complex systems.
Originally designed as discrete, 2D, multi-state systems, they evolved into simpler models like Conway’s “Game of Life” (1970) and 1D systems studied by Stephen Wolfram in the 1980s.
John von Neumann, prompted by Ulam, created the first cellular automaton to explore self-replicating machines. His model was a 2D grid with 29 states per cell, capable of universal computation.
In the 1960s; researchers began exploring CA as computational models of physical systems.
In the 1970s, John Horton Conway introduced Game of Life, a 2D, two-state automaton, which became incredibly popular because complex, life-like patterns could emerge from simple rules.
The original purpose was to understand how machines could build copies of themselves.
Simple local rules can lead to complex global patterns and it was seen that certain CA can simulate any computer algorithm!
The basic summary is that using simple rules, the patterns are estimated, but minor changes in the rules can lead to major changes later on!
It is like the butterfly effect, and this is the basis of chaos theory!
Then again, that also is something way over my head!
Though no amount of theory can explain why humans do certain things!
Like war to the point of destruction! Then again if you have war then you must have Sam Bahadur as your chief and you will be ok!
Praying for peace…
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