Duḥkha (suffering)

Suffering arising from dualistic consciousness; mentioned in the cosmological story of the mantra.

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Information Geometry
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Second lens; used to elucidate attachment and suffering via KL divergence.

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Stress is a compelling translation of the Sanskrit term duḥkha.
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Equates biological stress with Buddhist suffering.

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Suffering (dukkha)
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The fundamental problem Buddhism aims to abolish, arising from ignorance and attachment.
Stress
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Defined as discrepancy between current and optimal state; key driver of homeostatic action and intelligence across all systems.
KL Divergence
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A measure of the difference between two probability distributions, used extensively in free energy formulations.
Upādāna
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Buddhist concept distinct from tanha; April 2025 update clarifies that upādāna (impulsive physical clenching) is the VSMC manifestation of tanha bias.
Bhāvanā (Meditative Practice)
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Defined as the continuous Bayesian updating of Q to reduce discrepancy with P.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Dukkhaconcept0.779
Sanskrit term for stress/dissatisfaction; delta between current state and optimal state; driver of homeostatic loops
Jhana/Dhyana (Meditative Absorption)concept0.693
States of deep meditative absorption empirically associated with near-critical neural dynamics in cited studies
Feeling (as distinct from emotion)concept0.673
Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
Madhyamakaframework0.670
A Mahayana Buddhist school emphasizing emptiness and the deconstruction of reified concepts.
How Does Stress And Dukkha Operate As Fundamentalquestion0.667
Artificial Sufferingconcept0.664
The possibility of involuntary inescapable negative valence experience in artificially conscious systems; a central ethical concern for CIMC
Ahaṃkāra (Ego-Grasping)concept0.663
Elucidated geometrically as fixation to an ego-centric coordinate system φp0.
Tanhaconcept0.663
Buddhist concept of instinctive grasping for pleasant sensations and pushing away unpleasant ones; central to the paper's unification thesis.