cellular automata lore

[tommyaweosme]

once, there was an eternity of random black spots appearing and dissapearing on a grid. it never started. it never ended. at least, until order was formed. a being was suddenly forced into the world among the chaos. he was named b3/s23. he made sure that every cell only died of underpopulation and overpopulation, and that each cell had 3 parents. of course, this was not the only world. only just the first. b34/s34. b6/s16. b2/s0. by the way, every world was named after it’s god. b23/s23. b1/s2. factories were producing these. until suddenly, b12/s2-a. what is that? no one ever saw LETTERS where there should be NUMBERS! more and more of these rules were made, factories were built for these rules in specific. b3ai/s2. b6/s1-aeik. 010101010110. 011000101010101010110. wait what? they stopped generating letters, just rule tables! rule tables, the most powerful world. langton’s loops, lifehistory, rainbow, langton’s ant, evoloop, these were popping up everywhere! out of the second chaos, another being was forced into existance. it was not a being, but a collection of a beings called conwaylife.com. they were the mega-factory. every second their clever minds had thought up another rule table. and this is where we are now, among the chaos making more rule tables by the second. we started with chaos, and we ended with chaos. our rule tables are a bit more fancy now, but they are still the same in spirit. our only chance to end the chaos is to make one ruletable to consume all rule table. trillions of states, quadrillions of variables, quintillions of rules. this rule will delete all chaos, but also delete us. nothing will be out of order. no more factories. it’s all in this rule. we sacrifice ourself for true peace. true entropy.