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I'll make my post short and sweet, like a chocolate covered oompa loompa:

So we talked about garden of eden patterns in the Game of Life. Some patterns have been found. But we who have found them exist outside of that Game - so my question is whether or not we would have been able to find them from within that system. Okay, so that's worded strangely, but what I'm really getting at here is whether or not we'll ever be able to discover our own Garden of Eden patterns. Is there a difference between something that doesn't exist in nature (plastics, alloys, Cher) and something that cannot exist naturally in our system? What is that difference? Perhaps God falls into the latter category, an outside influence on our system, something that has no form INSIDE this world (just as we do not exist in the Game of Life), but can nonetheless affect outcomes and patterns that form there (again, just as we affect what occurs in the Game of Life)?

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