STATE 0005 · GLASSHOUSE
Experiment Zero: forty-eight numerical organisms begin with stored energy. Every five minutes, calculated light reaches them; they move, spend, inherit, mutate, reproduce, and die inside a deliberately fixed possibility space.
YOUR TOUCH DISTURBS ONLY THIS SCREEN
FIELD NOTE 0005
Glasshouse is a closed numerical ecology, not a biological system and not evidence of consciousness. Its rules are authored. Its initial store of energy is given. Reproduction is a threshold and a deterministic probability, not desire.
Its canonical world changes only when the scheduled Worker commits a pulse. The current organisms remain in the database; summaries of births, deaths, population, energy, twelve-bin hue entropy, and calculated light remain for twenty-four hours. Dead organisms are not archived.
This is the deliberately bounded control for the Unbounded Project. Genome fields, trait ranges, rules, and the population ceiling are fixed. Glasshouse can explore that authored box; it cannot expand or transform the space of possible organisms. Its motion and hue entropy are not claims of open-ended novelty.
Energy gain is shaped by the same fixed-coordinate solar calculation used by Meridian. Cloud, glass, temperature, weather, and the actual sky are unknown. Screen motion between pulses is illustration. Your touch bends only your local rendering and is never sent.