In his book Wolfram talks of “The complexity”, while there may be many kinds of complexity.
Since Life does not generate complexity from
scratch we
ought to distinguish between two kinds of complexity: NKS complexity, which can be generated with
simple programs, and that of a cell,
which cannot.
True, rules 30 and 110 generate immense complex patters, still it does not indicate that their complexity matches that of a living
cell. One wonders how universal is
Wolfram’s computer if it fails to emulate the complexity of a living cell?
Or might his universal computer be only a conjecture?