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Working content survives incoming experience

Registered 9 Oct 2026 · Snapshot 12 Oct 2026

Execution: completedScientific verdict: bounded working hold pass

The question

Hold and deliberately replace acquired VSA working content while the same life continues to observe, learn and restart.

Why this experiment?

Remembered content needs a role in current activity and a relation to earlier and later events. Supplied controls let those mechanisms be tested separately.

How it works

Supply image fragments and visibility masks to recall, then test working-state hold/release and temporal replay. The addresses, clocks and control commands are supplied; encountered images provide the content.

Follow this part of the investigation: Recall something, hold it, then recover what followed →
Implementation and comparison details

Continue the frozen 32-encounter life through three held-content periods, explicit replacement, release, eight new observations and matched held/following branches.

What happened

Working hold controls passed across three content periods and eight new observations. The life retains 40 encounters. Exact restart match: True; acquisition and cursor agreement across all branches: True. Internal-query outcomes are reported separately; no autonomous selection or complete 1.3 claim.

Measurements
Measurements — values preserved from this run
Recorded fieldValue
episodes40
held periods3
engineering passedPass
internal query statuses
[
  "accepted",
  "accepted",
  "accepted",
  "accepted",
  "accepted",
  "ambiguous",
  "ambiguous",
  "ambiguous",
  "ambiguous",
  "ambiguous"
]

Results and visual artifacts

Open a figure for its input, comparison, and result. Click an image to enlarge it.

Working memory is the visual content currently held for use. This experiment tests an explicit hold control while new images continue entering long-term memory. Read each four-panel figure from left to right: working content before, latest incoming image, working content after with holding enabled, and a comparison that always follows the latest observation. The incoming picture is a reference; the other pictures are decoded from actual working vectors. These are supplied control actions, not autonomous attention decisions.

Keeping a recalled image in mind during new observations
Keeping a recalled image in mind during new observations
A previously recalled image is held while later images arrive. The first and third panels are exactly equal; the fourth panel shows how the same observation stream changes working content when holding is disabled. “Gate” is the hold switch, and “following branch” is that comparison. The remaining records check that new observations were still acquired and that save/restart preserved the state; pixel equality alone would not establish those facts.

Display derivative: WebP quality 90; maximum edge 2400 px. Original scientific pixels remain in the source run; do not measure this preview.

Replacing a held memory, then retaining the replacement
Replacing a held memory, then retaining the replacement
A partial visual cue first replaces the held image with a different recalled memory; that replacement is then held while later images arrive. The first and third panels are exactly equal; the fourth panel shows how the same observation stream changes working content when holding is disabled. “Gate” is the hold switch, and “following branch” is that comparison. The remaining records check that new observations were still acquired and that save/restart preserved the state; pixel equality alone would not establish those facts.

Display derivative: WebP quality 90; maximum edge 2400 px. Original scientific pixels remain in the source run; do not measure this preview.

Holding newly observed content instead of following the next input
Holding newly observed content instead of following the next input
After releasing the previous memory, a new observation becomes the working image and is then held across the following observation. The first and third panels are exactly equal; the fourth panel shows how the same observation stream changes working content when holding is disabled. “Gate” is the hold switch, and “following branch” is that comparison. The remaining records check that new observations were still acquired and that save/restart preserved the state; pixel equality alone would not establish those facts.

Display derivative: WebP quality 90; maximum edge 2400 px. Original scientific pixels remain in the source run; do not measure this preview.

Limits and next question

Supplied generic hold/release controls and a fixed replacement cue; no learned control policy, improved perception or complete milestone 1.3 claim. Four screened new photographs and four new-in-life frames extend an already acquired life. Final 32-image panel remains sealed.

Next question. Assess the held-content mechanism and its limits before planning temporal replay; full 1.3 requirements remain open.

Inspect the evidence

Download the methods and measurements for this experiment. Large training and saved-state files are not included.