The controller turns—and the future narrows again.
The downstream microscopic future contracts again—even though future repertoire was never part of the action-selection rule.
One repeats. One listens.
Ask once, repeat forever.
The action selected at q33 is replayed at q37, q41, and q45 regardless of what the organism becomes.
Ask again at every turn.
At every pulse, test all eight actions from the current state and select the one that now points high or low.
For the representative organism, the high controller uses A6, A2, A3, A2; the low controller uses A1, A4, A5, A7. No global “high action” exists.
The best action re-indexes almost completely.
The rotating direction is not a metaphor. Between 83% and 97% of later decisions differ from the action that was optimal at the first pulse.
Adaptive tracking rebuilds the split.
At q48, every one of the 30 adaptive high branches is above its adaptive low sibling. The adaptive advantage over replay is +0.985, 95% CI [+0.506, +1.493].
The future narrows again.
High-commitment siblings had fewer microscopic futures.
The contraction returns at nearly the same cohort magnitude.
The high adaptive state averages 0.333 pairwise Hellinger across its nine challenge futures; the low state averages 0.340. Seven of eight organism groups point negative or exactly zero, and every leave-one-ancestor mean remains negative.
The 95% interval just touches zero, and the size of an organism’s WMS gap does not predict its individual repertoire effect (Spearman +0.074). The recurrent result is at the controlled cohort level, not a simple per-organism dose law.
Same ancestor, different control histories.
Representative: serene-form-0965. High on the left, low on the right.
Four state-dependent turns.
The first action repeated four times.
Eight unforced steps later.
The state can be held. It does not yet hold itself.
The split falls by -1.443, with 29 of 30 organisms losing separation. The field-repertoire difference remains directionally negative (-0.005) but is not cleanly resolved.
Map the maintenance law.
That turns our new qualitative discovery into a dynamical law: the bandwidth, memory, and reversibility of the information-geometric control field.