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But if a dead square is surrounded by three living squares
但若一个死方格周围有三个活方格
It becomes lit,or is born.
它就点亮了 也就是它诞生了
Once you set an initial state of living squares and let the simulation run
一旦设定活方格的起始状态 并开始启动模拟
These simple laws determine what happens in the future.
这些简单的规则就会决定未来发生什么事
The results are surprising.
结果令人诧异
As the program progresses,shapes appear and disappear spontaneously.
随着程式的进行 形状自发地出现又消失
Collections of shapes move across the grid bouncing off one another.
各种形状在网格上移动 互相碰撞
There are whole kinds of objects,species that interact.
各种物体 或者说是各种物种互相作用影响
Some can even reproduce
有些甚至能繁殖
Just as life does in the real world.
就如同现实世界的生命一样
This complex properties emerge from simple laws...
这些复杂的物体源自简单的法则
That contain no concepts like movement or reproduction.
法则并未包含移动或繁殖等概念
It's possible to imagine that something like the Game of Life
因此我们可以想象 像生命游戏这样的东西
with only a few basic laws...
只要有一些基本法则
might produce highly complex features.
就可能产生高复杂的特征
Perhaps even intelligence.
甚至是智慧
It might take a grid with many billions of squares,
可能需要有数十亿方格的网格才行
but... that's not surprising. We have many hundreds of billions of cells...in our brains.
但这没什么好惊讶的 我们的脑子里 可是有数千亿个细胞呢
