More blobs did not mean more daughters.
The native order creates +0.339 extra thresholded components across the q48 future, and the direction-specific contrast is +0.329. But almost all of that signal disappears when each component must carry even 0.25% of the body’s field mass.
All thresholded components
The original topology panel is reproducible across the whole future.
Microcomponents
Seven of eight family groups carry the effect.
Meaningful-mass components
The added count is not macroscopic daughter production.
raw field
13/255 topology
51/255 dense core
raw field
13/255 topology
51/255 dense core
Mechanically selected source 14, q48 direction, release +4: its full-future native component-order effect is closest to the cohort mean. Component map: cream = largest body; cyan = detached component carrying at least 0.25% of total field mass; orange = microcomponent below 0.25%.
The causal effect lives in one density shell.
At 5/255, the diffuse halo remains connected and the order effect is small. At 13/255, the peripheral structure splits into extra islands. By 51/255, the microcomponent response has inverted. Hidden order is changing the stratification of connectivity through the body, not merely adding noise.
13/255 surface band
More mid-density peripheral islands under native cancel-first order.
Density-shell inversion
13/255 minus 51/255 microcomponent specificity. The response genuinely changes sign through the body.
The mature organism behaves like a stratified material near a connectivity transition. A hidden information direction changes which density shell percolates into one body.
Surface topology changes before mass partitioning.
Detached mass share changes by only +0.20 percentage points, and the second component’s mean mass share changes by +0.11 points. Neither is cleanly separated from zero.
Detached mass
Connectivity changes without a comparable redistribution of total matter.
≥5% daughter incidence
Cancel-first does not make large daughter events more common at this dose.
≥5% spell duration
When large separations happen, cancel-first tends to prolong them by about half a sampled frame—an intriguing lead, not yet a direction-specific result.
This is not a failed fission experiment. It identifies a causal precursor layer: the body’s surface connectivity moves before daughter mass does.
Push the surface transition until it becomes a daughter.
Dose
Scale the same q48 direction across a wide dose range and map when microfraying becomes a macroscopic second body.
Duration
Hold the drive for different pulse lengths and ask whether the connectivity shell develops memory or hysteresis.
Lineage
Track mass, separation, survival, and independent motion continuously—no single component threshold decides the answer.
The bold hypothesis is now concrete: information geometry may control a topological phase transition in the mature Flow Lenia body. The current dose reaches surface fraying. The next experiment asks where full fission begins.