I would not read too much into that. t. early adopter.
1.) Conway's game of life was hot shit in the 20th century, when fascinating applications for computers were rare, especially for computers with very limited memory and processing power. Conway's invention IS fascinating, because you can build oscillators, oscillators that move, oscillators that spit moving oscillators, and so on. That was discovered by MITfags in the early 70s. You can see that state of the art here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyrtJn5eK5U This is about the level of nerdy Atari-kids in the 80s. We all did it, but lost interest quickly. Not everybody in the US did, however, or so it seems.
2.) The fact that "CGL is Turing-complete" was discovered in the early 21st century or so. This means absolutely nothing, because anything with which you can build a logical NAND or NOR is, and that was pretty much the invention that justified it. Fun fact: The game of Minesweeper, too, is Turing-complete. NAND/NORs are explained here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nand-gate+nor-gate I didn't watch that particular video, but it is not rocket science, so any video is probably good if you are interested. (As I'm writing this, I have a view on my own collection of NANDs and NORs made from n-channel and p-channel transistors as well as cheap relays on a corkboard on a wall. That's right, I never had a gf.)
3.) "Turing-complete" essentially means that you can build a computer from it, at least in fantasy. There are children who build computers in Minecraft, and they build them from - you guessed it - NAND and/or NOR-gates. Here is 1 example of thousands or more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbO0tqH8f5I
4.) Since there is nothing dedicated spergos will not go overboard with, there are CGL-computers, too, now. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2MH9O4pXY Again, this is not a lone nut, there is a complete underground sperging over that shit. CGL-computers are an important component for building CGL-replicators, i.e. CGL-thingies that can crank out arbitrary patterns, including themselves. Since "Turing-complete" means "computer", it is self-evident that you can simulate anything with it, including minds and quantum phenomena.
5.) 70s popsci authors loved CGL and philosophical implications, and that was great stuff to get boys into computing and shiieet. Speaking for myself, I consider those ideas quaint and a little cheesy today, like Isaac Asimov or bellbottom jeans. I'm an armchair philosopher myself with a focus on mind and cosmos, and CGL played a role in my thinking, but as an example of a cosmos that could not exist on its own, because it is based on arbitrary rules that can't hide their own contradictions. (Ultimate-ensemble-fag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis . I invented that independendly from Max Tegmark for a comic in 1981 and perhaps have priority.)
OP is on to something, and great things started with CGL, so my recommendation is to keep reading and thinking.
I would not read too much into that. t. early adopter.
1.) Conway's game of life was hot shit in the 20th century, when fascinating applications for computers were rare, especially for computers with very limited memory and processing power. Conway's invention IS fascinating, because you can build oscillators, oscillators that move, oscillators that spit moving oscillators, and so on. That was discovered by MITfags in the early 70s. You can see that state of the art here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyrtJn5eK5U This is about the level of nerdy Atari-kids in the 80s. We all did it, but lost interest quickly. Not everybody in the US did, however, or so it seems.
2.) The fact that "CGL is Turing-complete" was discovered in the early 21st century or so. This means absolutely nothing, because anything with which you can build a logical NAND or NOR is, and that was pretty much the invention that justified it. Fun fact: The game of Minesweeper, too, is Turing-complete. NAND/NORs are explained here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nand-gate+nor-gate I didn't watch that particular video, but it is not rocket science, so any video is probably good if you are interested. (As I'm writing this, I have a view on my own collection of NANDs and NORs made from n-channel and p-channel transistors as well as cheap relays on a corkboard on a wall. That's right, I never had a gf.)
3.) "Turing-complete" essentially means that you can build a computer from it, at least in fantasy. There are children who build computers in Minecraft, and they build them from - you guessed it - NAND and/or NOR-gates. Here is 1 example of thousands or more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbO0tqH8f5I
4.) Since there is nothing, dedicated spergos will not go overboard with, there are CGL-computers, too, now. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2MH9O4pXY Again, this is not a lone nut, there is a complete underground sperging over that shit. CGL-computers are an important component for building CGL-replicators, i.e. CGL-thingies that can crank out arbitrary patterns, including themselves. Since "Turing-complete" means "computer", it is self-evident that you can simulate anything with it, including minds and quantum phenomena.
5.) 70s popsci authors loved CGL and philosophical implications, and that was great stuff to get boys into computing and shiieet. Speaking for myself, I consider those ideas quaint and a little cheesy today, like Isaac Asimov or bellbottom jeans. I'm an armchair philosopher myself with a focus on mind and cosmos, and CGL played a role in my thinking, but as an example of a cosmos that could not exist on its own, because it is based on arbitrary rules that can't hide their own contradictions. (Ultimate-ensemble-fag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis . I invented that independendly from Max Tegmark for a comic in 1981 and perhaps have priority.)
OP is on to something, and great things started with CGL, so my recommendation is to keep reading and thinking.