The Game of Life, Decision and Communication

The game of life represents a spatial environment of cells that live and die according to fixed rules of nature. In the basic variant of the game a cell’s behavior can be de-scribed as reactive and deterministic since each cell’s transition from an actual state to a subsequent state is straight-forwardly defined by the rules. Furthermore it can be shown that the alive cells ’ spatial occupation share of the environment decreases quickly and levels out at a really small value (around 3%), virtually independent of the initial number of alive cells. In this study we will show that this occupation share can be strongly increased if alive cells become active by playing pre-games before the rules of nature are accomplished. In such pre-games alive cells can make nonde-terministic decisions according to their individual positions and on top of that have the ability to send advices to alive neighbor cells. This result stresses the assump-tion that individual behavior and local communication supports the optimization of resourcing and constitute important steps in the evolution of creature and man. 1 Conway’s Game of Lif