wmayner / pyphi

A toolbox for integrated information theory.
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Applying IIT to the Game of Life #24

Closed void4 closed 5 years ago

void4 commented 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

When a cell is alive, it has 140 possible predecessor patterns, if it is dead, 372.

Can one apply IIT to visualize phi values and subject boundaries?

I found one of your previous publications which applied IIT to elementary cellular automata: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/8/5472

Are you aware of anyone who considered the 2D, 3D or even smooth-case?

Edit: From your answer here I can see that this problem seems to be currently computationally intractable, even in regular systems such as these.

wmayner commented 5 years ago

Closing; see #25.