Why were body and mind ever thought to be separate? The theory of vasocomputation proposes that they never were; that the felt sense of tension we carry is not a metaphor but a literal computation performed by the vasculature, a record of unresolved prediction error written into the tissue itself.

Drawing on neuroscience, phenomenology, and contemplative traditions, this expedition seeks an elegant account of suffering and its release. It treats taṇhā, the Buddhist notion of craving or clinging, not as a moral failing but as a mechanism, one that can be observed, understood, and ultimately loosened.

The wager is that a rigorous theory of how the body holds tension could reframe trauma, qualia, and the texture of conscious experience all at once, uniting traditions that have spent millennia talking past one another.