Bring your own breakfast and salon with us in the Plaza!

Join us for an morning salon with Mike Johnson as we explore vasocomputation—a provocative framework that merges Buddhist phenomenology, active inference, and physical reflex into a unified model of consciousness and cognition.

Vasocomputation proposes that the mind computes not just with electrical signals but also with vasodynamics—subtle changes in blood flow that carry affective weight and guide our behavior. This session will explore what it means to think of consciousness as a control system shaped by valence, and how these ideas might be made practical in real-world applications.

Expect open dialogue, speculative rigor, and the opportunity to engage deeply with a theory that reimagines how the mind computes feeling. Whether you're a consciousness researcher, meditator, or curious explorer, this is your invitation to think beyond the brain and into the bloodstream.