Questions About Your Experience with the cellular automaton Golly
Answer these questions based on your experience of playing with golly. No longer than 2 pages total. Obviously you won’t be able to answer all the questions—therefore choose only the questions that are of greater interest to you. A hard copy of your answers is due
- In what ways is golly an example of a cellular automaton?
- How are cellular automata complex systems? Or are they simple systems?
- Why do you think the professor assigned the students to play with golly?
- How does golly exhibit emergent phenomena?
- Describe several of the initial conditions or comfigurations you used when playing with golly.
- Were the outcomes of the runs of these initial conditions predictable?
- Did you get better at predicting the emergent simulations on golly?
- What surprised you when you were playing with golly?
- What appeared to be a natural and expected outcome of the initial conditions you used?
- In what ways has playing with golly increased your knowledge of complex systems?
