We were asking
Can two states with the same visible field have different developmental futures because their hidden composition is arranged differently?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
The Body Is Not the State
At q40, every visible pixel and the global channel balance were held fixed while only the hidden allocation between two material channels was rewired, and the later body changed.
featureexact hidden-allocation intervention
This experiment found
Yes; an exact invisible rewrite shifted later radius and trajectory, showing that visible morphology is an incomplete causal description of the state.
That sent us to
Can each organism's own hidden direction predict which invisible rewrite will expand or compact its later body?