We were asking
When do different early histories begin to change what the same later intervention can do: only after the body is visible, or already at the first checkpoint we measured?
Flow Lenia / action-world
By q8, the Future Is Already Broad
At q8—eight passages after the seeded field—four states made by different early pulse histories still look similar, yet the mean distance among their passage-900 outcomes is about 4.3 times the mean distance among their q8 shapes; by q32, those histories are easier to see in the present form, while the spread in later formation times has narrowed.
featureprospective same-organism challenge comparison
This experiment found
Already by q8, the four nearly matched shapes responded differently to the shared challenge panel; because q8 through q32 reuse the same organisms, the age curve describes how one cohort changed rather than replicating the result four times.
That sent us to
Which part of that early breadth comes from spatial organization, and which part is generic sensitivity to being disturbed?