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The logic is mind blowing. That's similar to what I imagine to be programming of nanodevices in the future.

This is brilliant. It's not even a "logic puzzle" as much as it is an engineering feat.

And it's not like software engineering, where you're defining the nature of the system as a whole, and then instantiating it, but more like a physical engineering discipline, in which you're juxtaposing already-existing materials against each other such that their pre-existing properties interact with each other to produce the behavior you want.

Conways' Game of Life is not a strategy game. I built one using Javascript:

http://jules.boussekeyt.org/game-of-life/

(instructions: click on some squares and press "Start")

It certainly has a strategy element seeing as the whole game is build upon the premise that particles act depending on a certain strategy.