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concept:upadana

Upādāna

Buddhist concept distinct from tanha; April 2025 update clarifies that upādāna (impulsive physical clenching) is the VSMC manifestation of tanha bias.

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Frameworks (1)

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

Concepts (3)

concept
  • Tanha
    associated_with
    Buddhist concept of instinctive grasping for pleasant sensations and pushing away unpleasant ones; central to the paper's unification thesis.
  • Proposed as the brain's compression/prediction infrastructure where tanha physically manifests; central mechanism in vasocomputation theory.
  • Duḥkha (suffering)
    associated_with
    Suffering arising from dualistic consciousness; mentioned in the cosmological story of the mantra.

Related by similarity (5)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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  • Samsaraconcept0.659
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  • The other pathway in the 'her' subnetwork, where the verb 'lost' upweights object pronouns (including 'her').