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Dukkha

Sanskrit term for stress/dissatisfaction; delta between current state and optimal state; driver of homeostatic loops

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Concepts (5)

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  • Morphogenesis
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    Process by which cellular collectives generate large-scale structure and form; presented as a collective intelligence problem.
  • Anatomical Homeostasis
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    Ability of organisms to adjust anatomy despite injury or rearrangement; demonstrates collective problem-solving in morphospace.
  • Care
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    Engagement and concern in response to stress; the activating driver that transforms intelligence from mere capacity into problem-solving action.
  • Stress Sharing
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    Core concept: the hypothesis that cells can leak or export stress signals to neighbors, enabling collective coordination toward morphogenetic goals without explicit altruism.
  • Samsara
    extends
    Buddhist concept of continuous stress/suffering (dukkha) as inevitable condition of existence; analogous to infinite evolution of stress.

Related by similarity (8)

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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.

  • Suffering (dukkha)concept0.829
    The fundamental problem Buddhism aims to abolish, arising from ignorance and attachment.
  • Suffering arising from dualistic consciousness; mentioned in the cosmological story of the mantra.
  • Tanhaconcept0.719
    Buddhist concept of instinctive grasping for pleasant sensations and pushing away unpleasant ones; central to the paper's unification thesis.
  • Madhyamakaframework0.702
    A Mahayana Buddhist school emphasizing emptiness and the deconstruction of reified concepts.
  • Equates biological stress with Buddhist suffering.
  • Visuddhimaggaframework0.692
    Buddhist canonical text teaching recognition and discrimination of wholesome vs. unwholesome inner states (cittas), cited as historical precedent for Alexander's method
  • Satipaṭṭhānaconcept0.673
    Key Buddhist text describing mindfulness as continuous attentive awareness; textual basis for mindfulness principle