# EXP7 — the child's first cold question

Diet: 26 paragraphs (nursery ×24, solar text ×1, bakery control ×1).
Field grew 15→87 nodes, 8→136 edges. Probe: the atom text, never
deposited. Traversal read-only, riverbed's own perturbation battery:
100% attachment survival, vocabulary-independent.

## What came back

| attachment | born from |
|---|---|
| alluvial | genesis operator |
| fold-ecosystems | the clerk/folder CYCLE paragraph (nursery) |
| hierarchy | the director/managers TREE paragraph (nursery) |

A `solar-system` node EXISTS in the field. The atom probe did not reach
it. Neither did any bakery node come back.

## Scoring the frozen predictions

- **P1 (atom → solar above bakery): NOT SUPPORTED** — attached to neither.
- **ALT: TRIGGERED, exactly as registered** — the child reached for the
  GENERIC structures: hub-with-satellites (hierarchy) and cyclic passage
  (fold-ecosystems). Generalization over recall.
- **NULL: not triggered** — the attachments were structurally apt, not
  mundane-random; the closest drilled shapes to center-with-orbiters won.

## Reading (proposed, small n, one diet size)

The solar system was seen ONCE; the nursery shapes were drilled four
ways each. Field dynamics are alluvial: weight follows recurrence, so a
drilled abstraction out-competes a majestic single instance. Asked about
the atom, the child answered with its categories, not its memories —
which is what human children do with under-rehearsed instances. Not a
failure of retrieval; a measured property of the child at this diet
size: **instances need recurrence to become reachable.** Testable next:
deposit the solar text three more ways (pseudocode/events/anon), re-probe
cold, watch whether solar-system becomes reachable. Prediction direction
obvious; freeze before running.

## Corrections and cautions

`bakery-as-galaxy` was first logged as generator confabulation. The
researcher objected ("i immediately can hold several rotations that
overlay cosmos and bakery shop") and the selectivity check vindicated
the objection's spirit: 3/76 node births carry cosmic overlays, and all
three sit on MATTER-TRANSFORMATION texts (bakery, split-merge shipments,
ore→rust lifecycle) while routing/org/control/containment texts got
none. Neither promiscuous decoration nor unique insight: the generator
has a consistent rotation — matter-flow → stellar reading. Reclassified
from cosplay to PROPOSED CORRESPONDENCE FAMILY, unmeasured; the §13/§28
machinery (label destruction, loss vector, nulls) decides its fate when
an experiment takes it up. Word-choice lesson recorded: "confabulation"
collapsed a parse by vocabulary — §108 cuts both ways. And the folder found the atom before
the sun did: the drilled mundane cycle out-competed the single grand
instance — the folder question (OPEN_QUESTIONS) collecting evidence
unprompted.