And, thus, John Conway's Game of Life edges ever closer an accurate analog for the behavior of actual life.
Cellular automatons, requiring complete end-to-end simulation to determine the end result of a chain of events, with limitations on calculating shortcuts, by skipping states in between.
So, now, too, the real answer for why we would be required to "live" life, if we were, in fact, "souls" from a parallel dimension, fated to inhabit corpses passed through a one-way temporal dimension, in order to answer questions about the experience of an individual life.
To wit: One cannot know the outcome of a sufficiently complicated deterministic system or the seemingly apparent implicit results of running its course, without actually living through the intervening states all the way to completion.
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[ 58.1 ms ] story [ 935 ms ] threadCellular automatons, requiring complete end-to-end simulation to determine the end result of a chain of events, with limitations on calculating shortcuts, by skipping states in between.
So, now, too, the real answer for why we would be required to "live" life, if we were, in fact, "souls" from a parallel dimension, fated to inhabit corpses passed through a one-way temporal dimension, in order to answer questions about the experience of an individual life.
To wit: One cannot know the outcome of a sufficiently complicated deterministic system or the seemingly apparent implicit results of running its course, without actually living through the intervening states all the way to completion.