How does a spatial pattern actually serve as information without memory?
It's just intertwined, and the pattern is always orthogonal to how you process it, (at least that's the best way to understand it).
I will try and give an example... Braude can only share and pass his ideas through time to you... because he's recorded access to them in spatial patterns of matter (his book).
Take a dot in Braudes book, it's meaning, though processing, becomes clear through it's context.
Now it's a full stop.
Take some contrasting lines... processed contextually with the surrounding patterns, now it's a letter.
Take a letter, it's meaning is defined by the context of the surrounding pattern of letters... now its a word.
Take a word now it's meaning is defined by the surrounding sentence.
The sentence by the surrounding paragraph...
the paragraph by the surrounding chapter
The chapter by the whole book... so on, and so on.
What becomes clear though this, is that to understand the meaning of the book by reading it, requires you to be able to contextualize everything you see, even if it was a millisecond ago, 10 minutes ago, of a day ago. You must be processing through time, and such processing must interfere with itself across time too. What you read in the past, is interfering with you in the future.