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concept:vasomotion-reflexVasomotion reflex
The rhythmic contraction and relaxation of vascular smooth muscle; proposed to function as a compression sweep on neural resonances.
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Thinkers (1)
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- Michael Edward JohnsonstudiesAuthor of the vasocomputation paper; researcher at Symmetry Institute (QRI) studying consciousness, active inference, and Buddhist phenomenology.
Concepts (4)
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- Tanhaassociated_withBuddhist concept of instinctive grasping for pleasant sensations and pushing away unpleasant ones; central to the paper's unification thesis.
- Cessationsassociated_withBuddhist contemplative milestone theorized as near-complete absence of vasomotion; key prediction differentiating vasocomputation theory from alternatives.
- Compression sweepassociated_withA process by which vasomotion collapses ambivalent neural patterns into durable definite states, reducing complexity.
- Neural resonancesassociated_withPatterns of oscillatory activity in neural tissue, organized into Self-Organized Harmonic Modes.
Hypotheses (1)
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- First of the three core vasocomputation hypotheses, linking vasomotion to compression.
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