Save Big on Coursera Plus. 7,000+ courses at $160 off. Limited Time Only! Grab it Explore the classical and quantum aspects of Conway's Game of Life in this 42-minute HyperComplex Seminar presentation. Delve into the mathematical foundations of cellular automata, examining stochastic variations and their quantum mechanical interpretations. Discover how the dissipative Schrödinger equation and tight-binding models can describe the game's dynamics, and investigate the thermodynamic properties emerging from these systems. Learn about complex-valued potentials, anomalous non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and their role in mimicking the creation and annihilation processes in cellular automata. Analyze the diffusion of mass, energy, and temperature in the context of the second law of thermodynamics, and explore the concept of complex-valued mass. Gain insights into the equivalence between anomalous Fick's law and the dissipative Schrödinger equation. Study various methodologies for describing both classical and quantum versions of the Game of Life, including statistical physics approaches and functional data analysis techniques. Examine the evolution of probability distributions in one-dimensional systems and the mapping of stochastic processes to quantum mechanical frameworks. Investigate the determination of effective complex potentials and the parameterization of tight-binding Hamiltonians in the context of Conway's Game of Life. Read more