CONSISTENT RESULTS ON LIFE

The findings presented by Bennett and Bourzutschky that the cellular automaton ''Game of Life'' is not self-organized critical - which was earlier suggested by Bak et al. - have been questioned, most recently by alstrom and Leao. The reason for this is that the two groups used systems with different boundary conditions and measured different properties. We measure the same properties as Bak et al., and find that the power law seen for smaller lattices disappears for larger lattices. The conclusion is that the ''Game of Life'' is subcritical, but with a rather long length scale.