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framework:symmetry-theory-of-valenceSymmetry Theory of Valence
Theory that valence (pleasure/pain) is related to symmetry in neural processing.
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- Michael Edward JohnsonintroducesAuthor of the vasocomputation paper; researcher at Symmetry Institute (QRI) studying consciousness, active inference, and Buddhist phenomenology.
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- The positive or negative quality of experience, identified in this paper with goal-relative prediction error
- One of four key isometries; reflection across a line (mirror line or axis of reflection).
- The physics concept of reduction from larger to smaller symmetry groups, cited as consistent with but less comprehensive than the principle of unfolding wholeness
- The design criterion that among possible new local symmetries, one introduces the symmetry that most intensifies the feeling of the whole.
- Valence as a functional property, proposed to act as dimensionality reduction when parallel processing paths interfere.
- The specific claim that interference between parallel paths uses valence to reduce dimensionality.
- Movement in a given direction through a given distance; all frieze patterns possess this symmetry by definition.