A pattern persists in reality only while its integrated information exceeds a critical existence threshold; below it the pattern cannot sustain its distinction from noise.
Pattern persistence is dynamic: a system stays in existence by continuously regenerating integrated information above the threshold, and the collapse of that regeneration is in principle detectable.
The existence-threshold dynamics are architecture-independent — the same persistence law governs a pattern regardless of the physical or computational substrate carrying it.
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