sim12 — Autopoietic Boundary

Does a self-maintaining boundary (with memory) enable L2 composition where the passive inhibitor (no memory) only weakly helped?

Six Conditions — Final Material + Boundary Field

Component Counts Over Time

Auto 2-seed L Auto 2-seed R Passive 2-seed L Passive 2-seed R None 2-seed L

Boundary Trace — B Persists Through Perturbation

B_gap (autopoietic, with memory) I_gap (passive, no memory) Right total material ┊ Perturbation at step 1500

B drops 9% in 100 steps after perturbation (memory); I drops 17% immediately (no memory). The coexistence survives under B (outcome=coexist) but the passive structures had already merged before the perturbation.

sim12 — Autopoietic Boundary

Six Conditions — Final Material + Boundary Field

Component Counts Over Time

Boundary Trace — B Persists Through Perturbation

Robustness Sweep — 4 Seeds × 3 Modes × {1,2} Seeds