We were asking
Can hidden composition redirect development without copying visible shape or changing total matter?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
The Body Stays. Its Future Leans.
The host's visible matter field remained exactly unchanged while its pixelwise channel ratio was replaced with a donor's, and the later body moved partway toward the donor's native future.
libraryexact latent-composition transplant
This experiment found
Yes; the donor ratio biased the trajectory while preserving the host's body and global inventory, and the recipient remained its own organism rather than becoming a donor replica.
That sent us to
Is the useful information carried by global balance, local spatial relationships, or a combination of both?