From the post:
This is a Conway’s Game of Life in functional style written in Clojure.
Wikipedia (Cellular Automaton) mentions:
Cellular automata are also called “cellular spaces”, “tessellation automata”, “homogeneous structures”, “cellular structures”, “tessellation structures”, and “iterative arrays”.
You may recall that Stephen Wolfram wrote A New Kind of Science (1280 pages) about cellular automata. Had a great author. Needed a great editor as well.
At a minimum, I take cellular automata for the proposition that computational artifacts exist, whether we expect or forecast them or not.
At a maximum, well, that’s an open research question isn’t it?