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claim:buddhist-compassion-can-be-understood-as-unbounded-vfe-minimisation-over-all-states-the-agent-can-influence-enabled-by-the-removal-of-the-separation-priorBuddhist compassion can be understood as unbounded VFE minimisation over all states the agent can influence, enabled by the removal of the separation prior
Formal account of why emptiness realisation and compassion arise together in Buddhist tradition
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extracted_from(2026) · Lars Sandved-Smith · Chris Fields · Thomas Doctor · Ruben Laukkonen +1
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- Karuna (Compassion)associated_withBuddhist concept formalised as unbounded VFE minimisation; arises naturally when sigma is pruned and sectorisation becomes a policy variable
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