We were asking
Does the reservoir ecology contain replicator-like compositional recurrence, and can an early information signal be tested against it?
Flow Lenia / replication
Before the Replicator — Reservoir Recurrence Census
The census found genuine episodes in which a four-founder mixture returned after repeated passage and regrowth, but no family contained enough strict positive and negative examples for a fair precursor comparison.
archivebehavioral census without signal test
This experiment found
Recurrence occurred, but the label structure was too sparse to evaluate the information score on this cohort; the score was never calculated here and therefore did not fail this test.
That sent us to
A balanced cohort must deliberately produce within-family recurrence and non-recurrence before any precursor comparison is opened.