A Grok-built "morphic resonance" Game of Life where memory overrules Conway's rules
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-10-23
seanmcdonaldxyz built Sheldrake's Game of Life with Grok, applying Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance hypothesis to Conway's Game of Life: a "field" board remembers past forms (crystals) and memory may overrule classical cell birth/death when neighborhoods resemble known patterns, side by side with a pure Conway control board, with tunable field strength, similarity threshold, and temporal decay.
The author muses that p(weird) theories like morphic resonance might even be provable. The app notes it's a toy model, not a claim the hypothesis is real. Screenshots show 28.3% divergence from the classical path after 1,180 generations.