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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run2-c42Tanha as neural mechanism
Buddhist craving (tanha) reframed as a specific, isolatable computational or physiological brain process.
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- Buddhist phenomenology's careful attention to dependent origination makes tanha-like building blocks particularly likely to have simple, elegant neural implementations.Argues that Buddhist analysis primes us to find clean neural mechanisms.
- In Theravada Buddhism, vasomotion corresponds to tanha, vascular contractions correspond to pattern freezing, and latches correspond to blocking awareness.Detailed mapping of vascular phenomena onto Buddhist concepts.
- Tanha is a side-effect of active inference gone wrong.Interpretive summary of TUAI hypothesis.
- Tanha is compression pressure — an artifact of the brain's compression drive.Reframing tanha as a side effect of the drive to compress complexity.
- Tanha is excessive forcefulness in the metabolization of uncertainty.Equation of tanha with maladaptive uncertainty processing.
- Tanha likely arises from one crisp, isolatable mechanism.Author's assertion that tanha has a single, elegant neural substrate rather than many diffuse causes.