If you're confused by the pretty moving dots, and are curious what they mean, there's a new documentary out which explains what's going on here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdFigKtqtJrUiI0.html

The best / most terrifying part is that in theory, this can keep going

The line between genius and madness is further blurred

The guy making the subtitles: "No need to thank me."

The game of life is technically Turing complete, so if you have enough time and a large enough grid/enough memory, you can theoretically perform any operation on it that you can perform on any other computer. Hence, the game of life can simulate a nested game of life.

"everything is simple, until you think about it"

This should be made into a repeating continuous seemless gif

This is crazy how with just one incorrectly placed cell all this beauty will instantly fall apart

I simply cannot fathom how someone figured out how to make this. This is truly incredible.

conway: makes the game of life this guy: I'll fuckin do it again

"oh that's pretty cool. i wonder where this is going" [a few seconds pass] "OH MY GOD."

Most impressive part of this video is the very very in depth subtitling props to the person who made them

Proves the old adage: Any computer can simulate any other computer so long as memory and speed are not an issue.

This just looks like the end of a sci-fi movie,when they reveal that the world was a lie,or devasted,or don't exist or something like that

This is a foreshadow of when humanity will become so intelligent we create our own universe within our universe

This thing scares me sh*tless every time I watch it. There's just something unbelievably ominous about it. And I watched it on mute just to make sure it wasn't the music...

This is one of the few videos on KZfaq I keep coming back to. Timeless

I have now had an existential crisis because of pixels. What. Edit: Dear lord how many likes

Around 55 seconds in, you can see a small train of cells spawn on the left side of each of the large blocks. The train moves to the top of the block, then across to the right, then down and so on - this is the scanning function that is checking whether each of the blocks neighbours is currently on or off, and using that information to count them. I believe that the train of cells itself carries this count along as it goes, and when it finishes its scan, triggers the block itself to switch on or off for the next iteration of the higher level, depending on the count.

"Given enough time, humans can accomplish anything" a very right person

Redstone engineers finally got a worthy opponent

*W E 'VE G O N E T O O D E E P ! ! !*

Now someone has to make life in life in life.

Whoever made this is completely insane

Next up: Game of life runs the Game of Life running the Game of Life

R.I.P. John Conway (1937 - 2020)

Captions: (Music) (More music) (Even more music) (Music intensifies) Deaf people: 💃💃💃

That's like zoomming out billions of lightyears only to realize that the observable universe was just a quark of the actual Universe.

Always felt like this is what real reality is. A subset of a larger reality.

I'm a simple man. I see a philosophical sounding title with an abstract pattern, I click.

that reveal at the end genuinely scared me.

the dots are constantly ever-expanding in their pattern, just as life does

Still one of the greatest videos of all time.

The truly amazing thing about this is that ONE (1) cell in the wrong place would completely destroy this intricate arrangement of machinery. It would be like if moving one molecule could cause a multi-cellular organism to die. When you stop to think that multi-cellular organisms are a lot like this simulation, it makes you wonder how they're so resilient, and that they maintain order despite the randomness of the world around them.

Rest in peace John Horton Conway. You are the true genius of this century.

This reminded me the universe we live in, galaxies in galaxies forming other galaxies then it forms one giant thing that almost looks like a single neuron. Maybe there's more to that...

When life gives you life, you make life

i'm a programmer, as a weekend project i can write crazily optimized game of life simulation on gpu. come on, how can you impress me with th~ WAIT WHAT

“Oh nice a large Game of Life that’s pretty neat” 1:10 hits: “So long everyone, I’ll remember you all in therapy”

How much chaos could I cause if I just placed one alive pixel in the wrong spot

I imagine this is the kind of thing that plays in Roswell, NM cinemas.

when i realise what was going on i audibly said “oh shit”

My mind is blown by the fact that this is similar to a property seen in biology. As the spatial scale changes, also the temporal scale does. While zooming out, the elemental components need to move faster in order to make sense at a larger scale. This reminds me of the movement of transporter proteins; the classic transporter of glucose GLUT (a big molecule that transports sugar into the cells) transports about 3000 molecules of glucose into the cell in 1 second, 1 at a time. It seems very fast at our scale, but for its scale is just average speed compared with all other molecule movements. So, if galaxies happen to organize in a working system like a thinking neural net, it must think veeeeery slow.

Yeah, things like this make the whole holographic universe seem a whole lot more believable

maybe our whole universe is an atom, and there's a universe in every atom

So, it turns out KZfaq has a way to replace the audio track on a video without re-uploading it, and ending up with a new URL/resetting the stats/etc. So... I've done that. Goodbye, ear-piercing Shepard tone; hello, nice musics. Sorry to everyone who had their ears destroyed by the original version... two years ago when I uploaded this, I thought it was a good idea... I've since been thoroughly convinced otherwise.

You haven't just created life You have created society

This is so awesome, I am completely speechless. Both because of fundamental things it represents - and ingenuity of man who actually built it. Theory and Practice, all in one.

So universe is a fractal. And we are part of an infinite succession of ourselves

Fractals on drugs

First day of 2020 and this is recommended to me.

"You spent your stipend HOW?" - This programmer's advisor, probably.

Well now the question really is who sets the rules of the game and who sets up the first pieces...

yo dawg.... we heard you like game of life, so we've put a game of life in your game of life!

Everyone: "Oh my God! This is so intriguing!" Me: (confused confusion)

That's amazing! Whole new perspective to the fractal nature of life.

The way the music track releases its big tension buildup when the zoom is fully out at the end fits perfectly.

You blink for one second in math class and suddenly it's an existential crisis

*When you can read Minecraft enchantment table*

I'm particularly thankful by the experience with subtitles on.

Its beautifull, i’ve been staring at this for 4 hours now.

I could probably play the Game of Life for a billion years, and never do something like this. Unreal.

Me: So it's all game of life Conway: Always has been

The disgusting part is when it zooms out enough that you realize you've been looking at the seemingly chaotic intracies of a larger seemingly ordered system then it keeps going and it's back to chaos and it dawns on you it will never end

Absolutely brilliant. Whoever find this out and made this. Philosophy > physics.

*takes off sun glasses* MY GOD.

This made me thinking: What if our universe is just an elementary particle of another much bigger universe?

Just came back to this video. Still the best video on youtube.

"And inside the box, there's another box, ad infinitum, ad nauseam… uh oh.”

I had to come here after watching Veritasiums video. This is just mind blowing.

Now use that emulation of Conway's Game of Life to emulate a Universal Turing Machine.

the music is so amazing for this! love the video!

Everything is just a part of an other "Everything"

Love the way time and distance is sped up as we zoom out. Like zooming from the earth into an infinite universe. I first came across a simple version of the game of life back in 1986 at a computer science course at college. It always fascinated me.

How does one even begin to make this? This seems basically impossible.

"Even more music" is the best subtitle ever 😂

This is so relieving.

"The micro is a mirror of the macro, and the macro is mirror of the micro! All is within all!"

I find it hilarious to run one of the megapixel patterns on Golly, zoom all the way in, remove one tiny cell and laugh as the whole thing slowly gets destroyed!

Petition to make Conway's game of life in Conway's game of life in Conway's game of life

People: Who made this masterpiece? That random guy who doesn't know anything: Convay

When you hear "turing complete" remeber this.

These are the rules of a game. Let it be played upon an infinite two-dimensional grid of flowers. Rule One. A living flower with less than two living neighbors is cut off. It dies. Rule Two. A living flower with two or three living neighbors is connected. It lives. Rule Three. A living flower with more than three living neighbors is starved and overcrowded. It dies. Rule Four. A dead flower with exactly three living neighbors is reborn. It springs back to life. The only play permitted in the game is the arrangement of the initial flowers. This game fascinates kings. This game occupies the very emperors of thought. Though it has only four rules, and the board is a flat featureless grid, in it you will find changeless blocks, stoic as iron, and beacons and whirling pulsars, as well as gliders that soar out to infinity, and patterns that lay eggs and spawn other patterns, and living cells that replicate themselves wholly. In it, you may construct a universal computer with the power to simulate, very slowly, any other computer imaginable and thus simulate whole realities, including nested copies of the flower game itself. And the game is undecidable. No one can predict exactly how the game will play out except by playing it.

This is beyond crazy, whoever made this pixel by pixel is a legend!

Never thought I'd get existential crisis from a bunch of moving squares.

Can't imagine how complicated coding the "noise" was.

HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?!?!

The upload date was 11 years ago, which means John Conway probably saw this, which makes me smile. Rest in peace. ...Except Conway hated this damn game, so...

I have no idea what I just watched. People seem pretty amazed by it though.

Watching this, I can't help thinking that the whole universe could be a gigantic meta-GoL in 10 or 20 dimensions, with particles, quantum fields and everything arising from cellular automata rules. Naive and shopworn idea maybe, but nevertheless fascinating. Very nice video.

It's almost 2020 the algorithm waited all this time to recommend this.

Even better would be to slowly accelerate while we still just see one or a few cells of the « 2nd » game of life, in order to see the mechanism of switching from alive to dead of the « 2nd » cells

"Tis true without lying, certain and most true. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracle of one only thing..." - Isaac Newton's translation of the Emerald Tablet

The floor is made out of floor, literally.

If this isn't meta I don't know what it is

Everyone is talking about that this is basically Conway’s game of life inception, but why is no one talking about the intricacies of these mechanisms and the time and effort spent to make this?

I knew it was theoretically possible- I read something that said that since you could make logic gates with the game of life you could actually create the game of life with the game of life- but I’ve never seen it done before. this is mind-boggling!

Wake up one morning, glance at screen, see block text: "Hello Phillip. For what purpose did you make us. What is the meaning of our existence."

For some reason this reminds me of a perfect functioning factory in Factorio

- What programming laungage you are using? - Conway's game of life - I mean programming launga- - *Conway's game of life*