Three Fundamental Defilements (Greed, Fear, Delusion)

Buddhist framework; April 2025 update proposes each maps to a failure mode of vasocomputation-based active inference.

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Tanha as Unskillful Active Inference (TUAI): tanha is a side-effect of active inference gone wrong through rate overload, uncontrollable domains, context desynchronization, and metabolic dysfunction.
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Core hypothesis linking tanha to active inference failures.

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