218 = 262,144 Life-like universes, one for every choice of birth and survival counts. Then leave the grid of integers behind: Lenia and SmoothLife make space, time and state continuous. Or drop the shared rule: MarkovJunior rewrites one pattern at a time, and a few lines of it build a maze.
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