Population: 0
Generation: 0
State: running
About: Conway's Game of Life (1970) is a Turing-complete cellular automaton on a 2D grid: cells live/die by simple neighbor rules (birth at 3, survive at 2-3). A "Garden of Eden" is a configuration with no predecessor — it cannot arise from any prior state by the Life rules. Such patterns are proven to exist (Moore 1962, Silverman/Wainwright) and are fascinating because they prove Life is not surjective. Load the preset to see a verified Garden of Eden configuration.