I made these about a month or so ago with the skills from taking your front end course. It's fun to move around (drive around in the case of the board-game themed one) and protect the static pieces from the shooters.

https://conwaysgameoflifewithatwist.vercel.app/ https://conway-s-life.vercel.app/

The philosophical implications of Conway's game are so intriguing. I first encountered the fine tuning argument (although I don't think it's named as such in the book) in Dawkins's "Climbing Mount Improbable." Ironically, that book and his beautiful explanation of it was really instrumental in leading me to theism in my early 20s.

Have you read A New Kind of Science? I read parts of it a long time ago, but Wolfram feels pretty strongly about this sort of computation being capable of explaining/predicting the universe. His interviews with Lex (4 of them now) are great too if you haven't seen them.