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Latched Hyperprior Hypothesis (LHH): If a vascular contraction is held long enough, it engages the latch-bridge mechanism, durably freezing the nearby circuit and creating a durable commitment to a specific hyperprior isolated from global updating, unlocking only when the corresponding prediction is resolved.

Third core hypothesis, explaining how latched VSMCs instantiate hyperpriors.

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Johnson Vasocomputation 2023

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VSMCs are the brain's compression/prediction infrastructure — where top-down predictive models are physically stored.
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Central thesis linking VSMCs to predictive coding.
Sum total of all latches likely accounts for the majority of bodily suffering.
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Practical implication of latch-bridge mechanism.

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Hyperprior
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In predictive coding, a high-level prior that shapes inference; latched vascular contractions are proposed to physically instantiate durable commitments to hyperpriors.

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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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Sustained vascular contractions engage latch-bridge mechanism, durably freezing neural circuits and isolating them from conscious experience; creates durable hyperprior commitments.
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Second core hypothesis, linking VSMC contraction to active inference predictions and memory.
Compressive Vasomotion Hypothesis (CVH): Vasomotion reflex functions as a compression sweep on nearby neural resonances, collapsing ambivalent patterns into durable definite states, with motifs of vasomotion as reflexive reactions to uncertainties (patterns of tanha).hypothesis0.761
First of the three core vasocomputation hypotheses, linking vasomotion to compression.
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Prediction for Experiment 1 cross-domain anchoring
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Broad health implication of the theory.
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Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.
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Prediction for in-vivo biology from the model.
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