We were asking
Is the changing hidden state merely a marker of age, or does it causally oppose the body's concurrent growth?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
The Hidden Future Pushes Back
The q8-to-q12 hidden displacement acted as a developmental counterweight: inserting it earlier constrained later radius, while removing it at q12 released expansion.
libraryhidden-state transplant intervention
This experiment found
Transplanting the direction changed later body size with the sign expected from a negative-feedback constraint, even though the visible starting field was held fixed.
That sent us to
How does the response scale with dose, and does the ordinary trajectory return after the intervention ends?