We were asking
Is a state's recent temporal direction causally special, beyond the fact that any hidden rewrite can alter development?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
Forward Opens the Future
At q24, each state's own q24-to-q40 hidden direction was used to construct equal-dose forward, reverse, and sideways interventions; forward compacted the later body and, at a particular age, widened its subsequent future fan.
librarynative-direction intervention
This experiment found
Forward and reverse began from identical visible fields but produced different later geometry, with a conditional widening of future repertoire along the native direction.
That sent us to
Where does this directional leverage first appear, and which parts of the hidden field carry it?