[gore3000]

The rules I posted do generate the works of Shakespeare.

Don't be ridiculous. It will not create any such thing. First of all, as I pointed out, for it to be intelligible you have to translate it to letters. That takes the 128 rules for each ASCII character. In addition to which you will need a program to generate the fonts to make it intelligible. And still, you have not created anything. I have often said that evolution looks at things in a backward manner. This is what you are doing. No code is going to write the works of Shakespeare by chance or the DNA code of a living creature. More importantly no code is going to write an original work like those of Shakespeare nor an original DNA code for a new species. In fact, without a goal, without a design, you cannot have rules to accomplish a task. Any rules which you might say are the source of life had to be designed, intelligently designed in order to produce life.

BTW - I have yet to hear what are the 5-6 simple rules that were the source of life, the Universe and everything.

[Doctor Stochastic]

For your 5 or 6 rules, you will have to consult Wolfram. I have never claimed that your 5 or 6 rules did anything. I only pointed out that simple rules can lead to complex structures.

Of course the rules I posted generate the works of Shakespeare. They also generate all your future postings on FR. This has been know for about 70 years. It's not only easy to get complicated things from simple rules, it's easy to get everything from such rules.