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Vascular Clamp Hypothesis (VCH): Vascular contractions freeze local neural patterns and plasticity for the duration of contraction, with specific constrictions encoding specific predictions, functioning as medium-term memory.

Second core hypothesis, linking VSMC contraction to active inference predictions and memory.

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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.

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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs)
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Proposed as the brain's compression/prediction infrastructure where tanha physically manifests; central mechanism in vasocomputation theory.
Vascular clamp
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Contraction of VSMCs that freezes local neural patterns and plasticity for the duration of contraction, functioning as medium-term memory.

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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.

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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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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).hypothesis0.825
First of the three core vasocomputation hypotheses, linking vasomotion to compression.
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.hypothesis0.817
Third core hypothesis, explaining how latched VSMCs instantiate hyperpriors.
Compressive Vasomotion Hypothesis (CVH)hypothesis0.785
Vasomotion reflex functions as compression sweep collapsing neural ambivalence into definite states; vasomotion motifs are reflexive reactions to uncertainty.
In Theravada Buddhism, vasomotion corresponds to tanha, vascular contractions correspond to pattern freezing, and latches correspond to blocking awareness.claim0.780
Detailed mapping of vascular phenomena onto Buddhist concepts.
Vascular system motifs are the means by which we manipulate sensations.claim0.767
Theravada Buddhism mapping: vascular system as the physical basis of tanha-driven sensation manipulation.
Vascular contraction as pattern freezingconcept0.765
The idea that vascular clamp freezes local neural patterns, preventing plasticity and global updating.
The criterion of physiological continuity is artificial, as we are linked in many non-conscious ways just as our body components are linked.claim0.737
Used to argue that care should extend to all sentient beings, not just one's own body.
Tanha is compression pressure — an artifact of the brain's compression drive.claim0.736
Reframing tanha as a side effect of the drive to compress complexity.