We were asking
Can the information-response turn be detected prospectively rather than aligned after the visible event?
Flow Lenia / orientation
The State Turns Before the Form
Eight exact rearrangements were fixed at each age without seeing the eventual transition, and their response landscape rotated before the organism became visibly itself.
libraryprospective intervention map
This experiment found
Whole-over-parts organization rose and high-score outcomes separated from ordinary predictability before formation, providing a developmental coordinate without an exact countdown.
That sent us to
Does acting along the high-score direction before and after formation produce a consistent change in later futures?