Suppose we take another pattern, this time it is composed of a bunch of nonsense scribbling on a wall. It doesn't say or mean anything, however there is still information that can be processed from that scribbling. We could for example analyze the hue of the scribbling and come up with a color- say red. Or we could calculate what percentage of the wall is covered. Thus there are very many processes that exist for extracting information given a pattern.
Information is only relative to the choice of process.
We recall that, objectively speaking third-person mental events are patterns of neural firings in the brain. Qualia is just information from our subjective experience. No doubt if an agent undergoes subjective experiences then it is conscious. Thus, the claim that consciousness arises from patterns of neural firings can be substantiated. Conclusion Like David Chalmers, Donald Griffin believes that conciousness results from patterns of activity involving thousands or millions of neurons.