His suggestions for exploring the relationship between the autocatalytic theory of mind and the subjects of consciousness and dynamical, holographic models of memory, inspired a new paper which is summarized below. Since an organism eats other living things to survive, it must behave as if it values its own subjective experience more than that of the entities it consumes. Thus information is locally amplified. Moreover, an autocatalytic system generates not just novel informative components, but exactly those whose information-providing potential can be exploited by what is already in place, thereby enabling the system to function as a unified whole. Since these changes have direction, they are actually momentum values.
Experience is then a self-similar stream of holographic interference patterns.
Though the interference patterns are not distributed throughout the memory, but constrained, autocatalytic closure ensures a path of associative recall from any one memory to another. Also, since the memory is autocatalytically closed, we have the functional equivalent of a concave surface. If we reject dualism out of hand, we must explain how first person qualia could emerge from nothing. The line of reasoning presented here suggests that it is the relative paucity of consciousness in the universe that is an illusion. Autocatalytic closure in a cognitive system.