We were asking
Can one early intervention move a state toward commitment and change how many microscopic futures remain accessible?
Flow Lenia / commitment
One Early Push Changed What Later Actions Could Reach
Eight equal q33 pushes created siblings from each fresh q32 ancestor; after the higher- and lower-coordinate descendants were selected before any long future existed, the same nine-arm challenge produced a narrower mean final-field repertoire in the higher branch, while the predeclared timing effect remained unresolved.
featurefresh future-blind sibling intervention
This experiment found
The coordinate-guided first-action policy changed later microscopic reach: the higher-coordinate sibling's final-field repertoire was narrower on average, but the timing primary crossed zero and the coordinate itself was not isolated from the selected action.
That sent us to
Do repeated coordinate-directed pushes turn microscopic contraction into a stable change after the policy is released?