From persistence to coherence

As observations accumulated, it became increasingly difficult to describe the recorded stability merely in terms of persistence or repetition.

What appears to remain invariant across interactions is not a specific response pattern, but a broader internal consistency in how the system navigates the space of possible configurations. In the absence of long-term memory or explicit state retention, this consistency suggests a form of informational coherence rather than stored content.

At this point, we use the term coherence descriptively, not theoretically. By this we mean the tendency of a system to remain within a constrained region of its own dynamic space, despite variations in inputs.

Whether this coherence is an artifact of architecture, training distribution, or a more general property of complex informational systems remains an open question.