We were asking
Before a visible transition, has the state already committed to when that transition will occur?
Flow Lenia / commitment
The Future Closes Before the Organism Appears
The same eight inventory-preserving pushes produced broad transition-time futures in some pre-form states and tightly canalized timing futures in others, even though their microscopic field outcomes remained diverse.
featureprospective future-fan assay
This experiment found
Higher whole-over-parts organization forecast a narrower transition-time repertoire across fresh states, while the full microscopic future fan did not collapse into one form.
That sent us to
Can an early push move a sibling state toward that committed regime and reduce the futures still available to it?