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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Given a set of physical laws, points of local order can form in a chaotic environment. Conway's " Life" illustrates this. Starting with a completely random board, you will usually get small orderly areas appearing and disappearing, simply because for every rule set there are certain combinations of factors that have unique behaviors. The larger a chaotic field you have, the likelier it is that a particular combination of factors will appear somewhere in it. |
HM - I don't think this argument counters noodle. In fact I think it supports his proposition. Conway's game of life starts with both chaos
and order. The order is in the rules of the game. If the rules were something like - select a random cell and randomly turn it on or off, you would not see order appearing - until, of course, the virgin Mary appeared in the bits. :p