Vasocomputation

Unifying framework proposing that Buddhist tanha operates through vascular smooth muscle cells as the brain's compression/prediction infrastructure.

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Active Inference
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Foundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT)
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Adam Safron's theory positing Self-Organized Harmonic Modes as neural building blocks.
Neural Annealing
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Michael Johnson's prior work on how neural networks (and brains) can be 'annealed' to find optimal states.

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Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I)
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Blog post/research essay that introduces the Vasocomputation framework, linking Buddhist tanha with vascular smooth muscle cell function, active inference, and physical reflexes.

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Principles of Vasocomputationframework0.874
Mike Johnson's 2023 framework unifying Buddhist phenomenology, Active Inference, and physical reflex; introduces tanha as mental motion.
Vasomotion reflexconcept0.730
The rhythmic contraction and relaxation of vascular smooth muscle; proposed to function as a compression sweep on neural resonances.
Compressive Vasomotion Hypothesis (CVH)hypothesis0.725
Vasomotion reflex functions as compression sweep collapsing neural ambivalence into definite states; vasomotion motifs are reflexive reactions to uncertainty.
Polycomputationconcept0.722
Biological architecture where multiple competing/cooperating multi-scale agents develop interpretations of molecular and biophysical states rather than committing to single interpretation.
Vascular clampconcept0.719
Contraction of VSMCs that freezes local neural patterns and plasticity for the duration of contraction, functioning as medium-term memory.
concept vector computationmethod0.702
Procedure extracting concept vectors as difference of mean activations between concept-exemplifying and baseline/negative sentences
Control Vectors (CVs)concept0.699
Attribute-aligned shifts added to the residual stream to steer LLM generation toward desired personality traits
Computation as a Physical Processconcept0.699
Longstanding tradition the paper situates itself within, treating computational complexity as manifesting via physical dynamical phenomena.