We were asking
Can feedback hold a developing system in a state where more causal histories remain distinguishable, rather than merely disturbing it repeatedly?
Flow Lenia / control
The Gate Stays Open
A controller that tested five pulse sizes at each passage usually chose one strong early intervention and then restraint, and the resulting difference between alternative causal histories persisted for eight passages after control ended.
featureclosed-loop intervention
This experiment found
Early state-aware control kept the causal gate open, while blindly applying the full pulse at every passage drove the comparison in the other direction.
That sent us to
Does the open state give the same later actions more genuinely different futures, and what bodies do those futures eventually produce?