We were asking
Does an exact ancestral repair retain its meaning as the current state develops away from the injury?
Flow Lenia / commitment
The Repair Expires
The inverse block map exactly reconstructed the intact q8 state when applied immediately, but after the scrambled state developed for eight or more passages, the same operation reversed the action map and delayed formation.
librarydelayed exact-repair intervention
This experiment found
No; rescue became anti-rescue before passage eight, even though the operation preserved current inventory and was not simply a larger disturbance.
That sent us to
Where, passage by passage, does the state stop treating the ancestral arrangement as its own?