13.9 A DIAL reading of the result

The first involution is assimilatory: update the critic–policy state and act through the current action interface. The second is a policy-language intervention: install a candidate temporal composition and transport the task and observation evidence into it. The B2 failure is a behavioral proxy for an unresolved mixed obstruction. Goal-relevant local motions exist, but their learned order does not close into a successful task process. B2 does not by itself estimate the interchange comparison between learn–then–extend and extend–then–learn.

B3 repairs this interaction by adding a mediating temporal object. The four stages are not four unrelated heuristics; their interfaces constrain the next legal stage. Acquisition changes the persistent inventory state, which changes the target of navigation, which enables placement. Admission tests whether this composite is effective rather than merely compatible with the action types.

This is best classified as proto-combinational creativity. Relative to the B2 policy language, a new useful composite becomes available. But the experimenter supplied both its generators and their ordering. RELIC detected the obstruction, conditionally activated the candidate, admitted it, and transported it. It did not search over possible compositions or invent a new stage type. The stronger creativity claim remains open.

. B3 records admission of a supplied structural repair under the registered contract. It does not show that RELIC autonomously invented pickup-and-place, and its sixteen confirmation games are a mechanism sample rather than a benchmark-scale performance claim.