The game of life as a species model

Conway's classic game of life is a two-dimensional cellular automaton in which each cell alive or dead and evolves according to simple rules that depend solely on the number live cells its immediate neighborhood. The emergence complex multi-cellular objects provides fascinating vehicle for exploration. A variant presented, generalized semi-classical life, contains qubit by repeated application birth, death, survival operators. Species are characterized just two parameters: preferred neighborhood liveness representing tendency herd resilience parameter species' vulnerability environmental changes. This model opportunity fortune species compare available data. shown mimic catastrophes illustrated model's prediction return pre-hunting level global whale population 2140. student-designed predator–prey qualitatively describe fate strongly- weakly coupled systems (snowshoe hare/lynx rabbit/fox, respectively) sudden slow predatory impact (dodo diprotodon, respectively).