We were asking
Is the native developmental direction confined to a narrow mature window, or is it actionable earlier?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
The Arrow Comes First
At q24, the earliest age in this experiment, moving hidden composition along each state's own temporal direction compacted the later body, while reversing that direction expanded it.
archiveage-mapped native-direction intervention
This experiment found
The direction retained its sign from q24 through q48, so the tested window begins with an already useful causal compass rather than a late ignition.
That sent us to
What changes between q8 and q12, before the first age used here, as that direction becomes stronger?