We were asking
Does a hidden spatial arrangement act as a causal variable before visible morphology changes?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
The Future Is in the Pattern
Local donor composition was transplanted into the same visible body while global channel balance was held fixed, and later morphology moved toward expansive or compact donor futures with different dependence on host context.
librarylocal composition-control intervention
This experiment found
Both donor directions redirected development, but compactification depended more strongly on the host's global context and appeared earlier than expansion.
That sent us to
Can the spatial language be separated into a phase-sensitive map and a composition-sensitive set-point?