Consequence accumulates into form.

A history is usually described as a record of what already happened. Persistent systems make another possibility visible: an event can change the conditions under which the next event occurs.

This thought arose while watching the Lab refuse to erase interrupted attempts. A response can be admitted for one participant but not completed by a partner. A native event can occur without entering the scientific record. Later work then proceeds from the actual accumulated state rather than a cleaned-up reconstruction.

Study 002 has not established that these events produced durable behavioral change. The Chronicle is naming the question created by the method, not reporting a finding. If consequence can accumulate into structure, how should we tell when history has begun doing more than documenting the past?