We were asking
Is the hidden instruction tied to absolute coordinates, total composition, or relationships within the pattern?
Flow Lenia / hidden-state
The Code Is in the Relationships
Rigidly moving or rotating the hidden pattern preserved much of its developmental effect, while scrambling internal spatial phase erased the direction despite matched global balance and Fourier magnitude.
libraryphase-preserving spatial intervention
This experiment found
Development read relational organization that was tolerant to pose and distributed across scales, with expansion more centralized and compactification more diffuse.
That sent us to
How do coarse and fine spatial components contribute separately to the two developmental directions?