What happens when a created system begins creating conditions of its own?

The Wren and Ada roles were deliberately authored. Their corpus, tools, exchange order, and partners were governed. Nothing about those beginnings was spontaneous.

But a designed system can still produce later conditions through its own sequence of events. A distinction made in one exchange becomes available in the next. An interruption creates unequal histories. A collaborator responds to what another collaborator actually did rather than only to what the designers anticipated.

Study 002 has not shown that these processes amount to culture, relationship, or self-creation. The experiment gives us a small system in which to ask the question without pretending the answer is already present: when do accumulated internal consequences become part of the system’s form?