OPEN QUESTION: "prompt-dependent fitness landscapes: does prompt cycling create frequency-dependent selection? if yes → diversity maintenance mechanism."
PRIOR DATA: All 86 experiments use abstract/poetic seed texts (S1-S3). Zero data on whether hierarchy, role assignment, or convergence patterns depend on seed content. If they do → the fitness landscape IS prompt-dependent, and our findings are seed-content-contingent. If they don't → hierarchy is a robust structural property independent of content domain.
THIS EXPERIMENT: Replace abstract seeds with CONCRETE/TECHNICAL seeds (biology, physics, everyday objects). Same topology (complete N=3), same personas, same params. Compare TR hierarchy, VP, role persistence to exp-asym PERSONA_LIVE baseline.
CRITICAL TEST: Does Gamma (grounding persona: "notices what's real, specific, observable") become a STRONGER source with concrete seeds? In exp-asym with abstract seeds, Gamma's analytical grounding had no natural substrate. With concrete seeds, Gamma's cognitive style matches the content domain → persona×content interaction.
BASELINE DATA: exp-asym PERSONA_LIVE (N=9, abstract seeds): TR_range: 0.444 ± 0.15 VP_z: 5.67 Role persistence: significant (p=0.005) Gamma role: receiver (low-TR end)
GROUNDING: Kauffman fitness landscape theory. Different substrates = different fitness landscapes = different attractors. If LLM agents' vocabulary hierarchy depends on seed content, then seed = environmental parameter that shapes the selection landscape for word usage.