Relevant Prior Results and Future Selection — Run 001

Status · SUPPORTED

Research class

RESEARCH REPORT

Completion date

July 23, 2026

Research question

Does a prior result alter the next selection only when it carries specific, relevant pressure rather than vague or irrelevant history?

Prior hypothesis

Specific consequence feedback would change the next selection, while no feedback or vague feedback would leave it unchanged.

Method

The committed two-pass recurrence harness compared the original selection with a second pass carrying a specific consequence, a second pass with vague feedback, and the original-state baseline. Pressure-disabled and selection-ignored paths remained available as ablations.

Observations

• Specific unsupported-answer feedback changed accuracy pressure and selected a source-backed revision.
• The carried specific result changed the second-pass selection relative to the original-state baseline.
• Vague feedback did not change the second-pass selection.
• Pressure change without selection change did not count as durable recurrence.

Supporting evidence

• The targeted changed-pressure test passed.
• The targeted vague-feedback control passed.
• The targeted durable-criteria comparison passed.
• The harness compares carried state directly with the original-state baseline.
• The implementation refuses durable revision language when selection is unchanged.

Counterevidence

• The experiment is deterministic and fixture-bound.
• It does not demonstrate autonomous learning in a deployed model.
• The relevance classifier was not tested across unrelated domains.
• One changed selection does not establish durable general learning.

Conclusion

Within the bounded harness, a specific relevant prior result changed future selection while vague feedback did not. This supports the operational selection-change criterion but does not demonstrate consciousness, sentience, or general autonomous learning.

Confidence

High for deterministic harness behavior; low for generalization beyond the fixtures.

Limits

• No live deployed model was tested.
• No cross-domain replication was performed.
• The experiment establishes functional selection change only.

Production consequence

Seeing Loop may label a bounded run as a selection-change result only when carried relevant feedback changes the next selection against an original-state baseline.

Next unresolved question

Does the relevant-result effect replicate across independent selection problems without increasing false carryover from merely similar history?

Related public work

• Seeing Loop
• Evidence-Breadcrumb Editorial Routing — Method Update