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Compression pressure

Tanha reframed as the brain's compression drive pushing complexity toward simpler configurations.

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  • Author of the vasocomputation paper; researcher at Symmetry Institute (QRI) studying consciousness, active inference, and Buddhist phenomenology.

Concepts (1)

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  • Compression stress
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    The ongoing cost of maintaining counterfactual aspects of experience, conflating 'what is', 'what could be', 'what should be', and 'what will be'.

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