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Progress on the contemplative path is using these (vascular system motifs) less and needing them less.

Mapping contemplative development to reduction in vasocomputation.

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Johnson Vasocomputation 2023

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Mechanistic interpretability & model evaluation
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Spans attention head decomposition, benchmark awareness, and genomic pathogenicity prediction via neural models.
Mechanistic structure of transformer attention computations
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Identifies distributed algorithms implemented across attention heads, with focus on causal masking limitations and emergent capabilities via activation manifold steering.
Contemplative steering & introspective activation in language models
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Using contemplative prompts and manifold steering to enhance model self-observation and reasoning performance across multiple architectures.
Contemplative path & sensation manipulation
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Vascular system motifs as tools for managing sensations, diminishing with spiritual progress.

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Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I)
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Blog post/research essay that introduces the Vasocomputation framework, linking Buddhist tanha with vascular smooth muscle cell function, active inference, and physical reflexes.

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