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There are pretty compelling reasons to believe that life/physics are strongly tied to computation. See eg the slime molds experiments for some of the more visually impressive cases of that.

The question of how to turn these loose inklings into actionable, falsifiable, reproducible science- rather than Aristotelian armchairing - is a hard one.

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When I see those inklings, I uncontrollably see a cellular automata operating on a non grid (or a grid with very small cell size) space. Whether that automata is our or its own implementation is the real question. My hunch is, regardless of the underlying cause, our experiment proves neither.

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