Jim Murphy: I've developed a hobby of creating cellular automata and watching the emerging results of various rules. He asks, do you have any intuition for how often rules that appear chaotic at a small scale will create emerging complexity on a larger scale? "I remain optimistic that we can do better, but it's hard and it's going to take a long time," he says.
Welcome to the November 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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