AnnaLift Challenge 01/08/21 - Uncertainty
https://ozone.oscraps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40353
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coronavirus data from NYT
one of my fractals
Rule One: If C is living and if it touches two or three living cells, it remains alive for the next generation; otherwise, C dies [i.e., erase the filled-in square for next generation). Rule Two: If C is not living and if it touches. exactly three living cells, C becomes alive [i.e., fill C in for next generation). With appropriate starting patterns, we can obtain a host of stable and oscillating shapes.
In this moment in time, its important to emphasize that inherent unpredictability so well illustrated in even the simple Game of Life is a feature of life in the real world as well as in the Game of Life. We have to figure out ways to flourish in spite of the inherent unpredictability and uncertainty we constantly live with. As the mathematician John Allen Paulos so eloquently said, Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. This is, I think, Lifes most important lesson.
The New York Times did a story about The Game of Life and put a video of it runniing on YouTube. I wanted you to know about it because it was one of the first ways we could show the power of computers back in the 70s, even before fractals became a thing. I was mesmerized by it.
Wikipedia Conway's Game of Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
