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Does tanha arise from one crisp isolatable mechanism rather than 1000 contributing factors?

Johnson's core research question motivating the vasocomputation hypothesis; argues Buddhist phenomenology's attention to dependent origination makes simple elegant solutions likely.

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Johnson Vasocomputation 2023

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Tanha as Unskillful Active Inference (TUAI): tanha is a side-effect of active inference gone wrong through rate overload, uncontrollable domains, context desynchronization, and metabolic dysfunction.
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Core hypothesis linking tanha to active inference failures.

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Tanha likely arises from one crisp, isolatable mechanism.claim0.909
Author's assertion that tanha has a single, elegant neural substrate rather than many diffuse causes.
Buddhist phenomenology's careful attention to dependent origination makes tanha-like building blocks particularly likely to have simple, elegant neural implementations.claim0.755
Argues that Buddhist analysis primes us to find clean neural mechanisms.
The number of atoms involved in the responsible gene structure is likely to be very small, yet it displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous, remaining unperturbed by the disordering tendency of heat motion for centuries.claim0.742
Schrödinger's statement of the puzzle that quantum mechanics resolves.
"With one motion the door of possibility slams shut. And so we collapse our world into something less magical but more manageable, one clench at a time. Tanha is cringe."quote0.739
Poetic description of the latch-bridge mechanism and its phenomenological effect.
The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.738
Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
Tanha is compression pressure — an artifact of the brain's compression drive.claim0.738
Reframing tanha as a side effect of the drive to compress complexity.
Tanha is a side-effect of active inference gone wrong.claim0.735
Interpretive summary of TUAI hypothesis.
Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.731
Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.