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Screenshot of a forest fire model simulated on https://sandspiel.club/ The simulation is meant to depict the creation and destruction of life.
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Information plays a key role in life and complex biological systems. It is hypothesized that information processing capabilities distinguish life from other so-called non-living matter. Dynamical systems underlie and can be used to represent many complex lifelike systems. Dynamical systems and information processing may be the hallmarks of lifelike...
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... growing. A snapshot of this simulation is shown in Figure 8. Once the plants have grown for some time, the student can add some fire by clicking on the button labelled Fire and then clicking on a plant in the grey simulation area. This would set fire to the plants and the fire would rapidly spread. A screenshot of a sample simulation is shown in Fig. 9 below. This simulation depicts the creation and destruction of life. Additional activities for students: Students can now think of other ways to grow plants. What would happen if you added some fungus and mite by clicking on the buttons labelled Fungus and Mite. What would happen if you added some oil (play around with the Oil ...
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