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Devine Lu Linvega

In a cellular automaton, a Garden of Eden is a configuration that has no predecessor. It can be the initial configuration of the automaton but cannot arise in any other way. John Tukey named these configurations after the Garden of Eden in Abrahamic religions, which was created out of nowhere.

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Devine Lu Linvega

@livcomp I should have specified.
*shakes petri, gets typewriter*

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@neauoire These are what I've been looking for. I swear I heard them called God Patterns tho. Or maybe I'm misremembering a quote about them.

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