We were asking
Is the map from history to future assembled gradually as the body forms, or is it already present in the earliest state we measured?
Flow Lenia / action-world
By q8, the Future Is Already Broad
At q8, the earliest scheduled checkpoint after two early information-directed pulses, four states still look similar, yet the same later challenges send their q900 futures about 4.3 times farther apart; by q32, visible geometry carries more of that route while formation-time freedom contracts.
featureprospective same-organism future-fan assay
This experiment found
By q8, the earliest measured checkpoint, route history already changes how a shared challenge panel unfolds, even though the release fields remain much closer in visible geometry; the age curve is descriptive rather than an independent replication.
That sent us to
Which part of that early breadth comes from spatial organization rather than generic sensitivity?