In Theravada Buddhism, vasomotion corresponds to tanha, vascular contractions correspond to pattern freezing, and latches correspond to blocking awareness.

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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.claim0.792
  Argues that Buddhist analysis primes us to find clean neural mechanisms.
• Tanha is compression pressure — an artifact of the brain's compression drive.claim0.788
  Reframing tanha as a side effect of the drive to compress complexity.
• Compressive Vasomotion Hypothesis (CVH): Vasomotion reflex functions as a compression sweep on nearby neural resonances, collapsing ambivalent patterns into durable definite states, with motifs of vasomotion as reflexive reactions to uncertainties (patterns of tanha).hypothesis0.786
  First of the three core vasocomputation hypotheses, linking vasomotion to compression.
• Vascular Clamp Hypothesis (VCH): Vascular contractions freeze local neural patterns and plasticity for the duration of contraction, with specific constrictions encoding specific predictions, functioning as medium-term memory.hypothesis0.780
  Second core hypothesis, linking VSMC contraction to active inference predictions and memory.
• "With one motion the door of possibility slams shut. And so we collapse our world into something less magical but more manageable, one clench at a time. Tanha is cringe."quote0.756
  Poetic description of the latch-bridge mechanism and its phenomenological effect.
• Tanha likely arises from one crisp, isolatable mechanism.claim0.754
  Author's assertion that tanha has a single, elegant neural substrate rather than many diffuse causes.
• The Buddhist understanding of emptiness (lack of svabhava) is the same structural feature as quantum contextuality: the impossibility of assigning context-independent properties to a boundaryclaim0.753
  Proposed identification between philosophical traditions enabling formal translation of contemplative insight
• Vascular system motifs are the means by which we manipulate sensations.claim0.750
  Theravada Buddhism mapping: vascular system as the physical basis of tanha-driven sensation manipulation.