This little graphic is from Conway's Game of Life. This is called a die hard Methuselah. The most interesting thing about this little pattern is, that using the simple rules of Conway's game of life, this simple initial pattern self organizes into a series of impressive and much more complex patterns over an impressively long (for Conway's Game of Life) time before finally going extinct. This little pattern seems to me, to be the evolution of life on Earth, with the future final act added on ahead of time. Something to ponder in any event: how even in this little world, simple rules and patterns can generate vast complexity, but even these eventually die out.
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