Frozen Sensations and Suffering

I suspect humans won due to our ability to freeze sensations. A frozen sensation can be combined with others (imagination), or distilled & given to others (language), or held until it becomes true (Active Inference)

But in a world of frozen sensations, there is suffering

This suggests that our particular brand of cognition may be driven more by neuro-vascular coupling than anything else — https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/

Worth noting that we should be able to build bloodflow/density/metabolism neuroimaging metrics to map vascular latches & infer ‘how much frozen sensation’ people have in their nervous system — which may be a reasonable metric for ‘distance from being in non-dual experience’
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