We were asking
Does an early difference in causal openness remain an abstract score, or does it become part of the later body?
Flow Lenia / body
The Gate Is Still Visible 256 Steps Later
Open and closed branches stayed visibly different throughout the held-out future, becoming broader, less rectangular, and more topologically active in different ways; however, the action pair chosen to maximize the early split no longer beat its within-organism control at step 256.
featurefrozen gate-formation extension
This experiment found
The gate-conditioned branches remained far apart through step 256, but the selected action target's extra advantage disappeared; this is durable branch memory, not demonstrated long-horizon target control.
That sent us to
Can a gate state help steer a fresh organism toward a mature morphology that was named before the future was opened?