Re: To all the xperimentalist musicians: Eno-Wright event in SanFrancisco

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

http://www.andybutler.com/life/gameoflife.htm

"It's probable, given a large enough Life space, initially in a random 
state, that after a long time, intelligent self reproducing animals will 
emerge and populate some parts of the space."
Berlekamp,Conway,Guy "Winning Ways"Vol2  p849   1982

Original 1970 New Scientist article.
http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

andy butler

> Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by cellular automata such 
> as Conway's "Game of Life," where just a few simple rules could 
> unleash profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied dynamic 
> patterns. Cellular automata were the secret ingredient of Wright's 
> genre-busting computer game