The notion of experience itself—whether subjective sensations like the taste of mint—consists of stable, transportable patterns that persist across time and can be compared across observers, whereas fleeting neural activations that appear and disappear without being robust patterns are not genuine conscious experiences.

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Speaker

Steven Wolfram

Evidence Quote

there is a consistent persistent thing that is the engram or whatever it is that represents that that concept and that it is robust [36:43]

Source

Donald Hoffman Meets Stephen Wolfram For the First Time on TOECurt Jaimungal
Created: 8/10/2026, 4:04:02 PM

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