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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c15-c0Tanha as neural compression artifact
Buddhist phenomenology of craving mapped to vasomotor dynamics and active inference dysregulation, seeking isolatable neural mechanisms.
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- Johnson Vasocomputation 20237 members
- 15-properties-of-aliveness-in-AI.md1 member
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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.
- Cessations are near-complete absence of vasomotion.Equates meditative cessations with halted vasomotion.
- 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.
- The Void—silence and restraint—is a structural positive aligned with Buddhist phenomenology of consciousness.