One state. Two directions. A third copy waits until after commitment.
At passage 1, while ancestral repair still helps, we split every organism three ways: no pulse, inverse ancestral pulse, and forward anti-direction pulse. The two pulses are exact inverse operators and have identical Hellinger magnitude in every organism. A fourth branch receives the ancestral pulse only at passage 3—after the commitment boundary.
Representative organism s30, rendered on one intensity scale. The field states diverge strongly; the information-geometric direction of that divergence is what separates the branches.
The direction of the pulse survives in the future action-world.
Integrated causal memory, passages 1–8
Sum of branch-minus-no-pulse history-tangent effects across all available ages. Organisms are the paired units.
History separation relative to no pulse
The ancestral branch remains above no-pulse through passage 8; the forward branch remains below it. Intervals resample the same 39 organisms.
Causal coherence relative to no pulse
The broader tangent-agreement signal is noisier and partly relaxes, but its integrated directional memory remains separated.
Equal physical displacement. Opposite causal inheritance.
Pulse Hellinger magnitude
The two passage-1 operators are exact inverses and have the same magnitude: 0.3255791721 in both arms.
The early ancestral and forward branches begin equally far from the no-pulse state. By passage 8 their raw field distances are still broadly similar and growing. Yet one preserves the separation of causal histories while the other suppresses it. The system remembers direction, not merely disturbance.
The same ancestral pulse changes meaning across two passages.
Visible-transition advance versus no pulse
Positive means formation occurs earlier than no-pulse; negative means later. Individual branch intervals are noisy.
The forward passage-1 control changes timing by only −0.33 steps [−11.59, 11.44]. Equal physical disruption is not enough. Developmental phase and causal direction jointly determine the outcome.
Interventions are converted into history.
Direction becomes memory
- equal-size inverse directions leave opposite future action-worlds
- the history-separation difference persists through passage 8
- the pulse is not simply forgotten as the field evolves
Phase becomes meaning
- the same ancestral operation helps before commitment
- after commitment it points the developmental clock the other way
- physical sameness does not imply causal sameness
This is a causal bridge from information geometry to emergent form. We perturbed the early action-world in controlled directions, watched that direction persist as a dynamical memory, and saw the timing of the same operation alter later visible formation.
Hold the commitment gate open.
The next move is closed-loop: at each early passage, select the smallest spatial or intervention pulse that preserves the positive history-separation direction, then release it. If the gate can be held open past passage 3—and visible formation shifts with it—we will have actively controlled the birth process through its causal geometry.