epic conway's game of life

I cannot view things like this and [LINK] and [VIDEO] without coming to the conclusion that we, and life, are just massively complex self-replicating patterns. May you find peace in the oscillations.

I was on the same opinion as well. But I would like to borrow form Conway's Game of Life. The initial rules are simple, and to the untrained person, it just creates random blobs that disappear after a while. But then we have things like this: [VIDEO]

One thing that makes me think that is possible is Conway's Game of Life. The rules are simple, and on the face value, doesn't create anything exciting, but then we have this: [VIDEO]

There's an entire field of deterministic mathematics called Chaos Theory, that pretty much encompasses what it says on the tin. It turns out that -innocent, simple looking- finite state deterministic automata can actually be less predictable than the non-deterministic kind. (and it can get pretty wild! [VIDEO] )