I'm not an engineer. I just wanted to see if a 3D cube of cells could learn to talk

Thank you John6666 for such a detailed and well-structured response. Your roadmap makes a lot of sense — especially starting with reproducibility and ablations before scaling up. I’m going to focus on: 1. Ablation studies — isolating which components actually drive the effect 2. Baseline comparisons with GRU/small Transformer at same param count 3. Verifying the “eureka” phase consistency across seeds and prompts 4. Synthetic task ladder before full language modeling I’ll share results as I go. Really appreciate the guidance.