Not to be all depressing like Marvin the Paranoid Android, but I happen to think "life" is overrated. ;) There are so many billions of other extremely interesting cellular automata rules besides "life" too, so don't stop once you get bored with life! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAA67a2-Klk

The really interesting and efficient and deeply physics-related cellular automata rules are reversible (which the Game of Life isn't).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

Reversible computing is any model of computation where the computational process, to some extent, is time-reversible. In a model of computation that uses deterministic transitions from one state of the abstract machine to another, a necessary condition for reversibility is that the relation of the mapping from states to their successors must be one-to-one. Reversible computing is a form of unconventional computing.

Due to the unitarity of quantum mechanics, quantum circuits are reversible, as long as they do not "collapse" the quantum states they operate on.

How come? If constructor theory is promising, then Wolfram's theory should be just as promising. Both are unproven and the ideas are not extremely different.

I think in the long run they will appear complimentary. Particularly since the Ruliad is meant to represent the space of all possible entanglements.