We were asking
Could recovery toward one macroscopic state provide the first operational sign of goal-directed organization in Flow Lenia?
Flow Lenia / synthesis
Flow Lenia and Causal Emergence: Evidence and Next Tests
This early synthesis framed the project around counterfactual return after injury and asked whether whole-over-parts organization might rise before a system began correcting deviations toward a preferred endpoint.
archivesuperseded research synthesis
This experiment found
The available wound experiments did not yet establish that return, so the report served mainly as a map of tests that the later campaign made more direct.
That sent us to
Later syntheses shift from one preferred endpoint toward the developing map of interventions, histories, and reachable futures.