There’s a tuplamancy-adjacent construct called a “servitor”, which sounds like a kind of persistent hallucination that might be able to perform various automatic functions. I can’t imagine such a thing being any more useful than a smartphone (probably much less), but perhaps it would have a faster direct-mental interface.
For example, I wonder if some kind of “notepad” servitor could expand one’s working memory, which seems like a major bottleneck in humans. I.e. quickly offload writing/images to the persistent hallucination, and then just look at it to reload it. This would be easy enough to test with something like digit-span or dual-n-back.
Given the way reading fails to work in dreams (it gets completely confabulated based on expectations, and then erased/regenerated as soon as you look away/back), I think there’s a significant chance a servitor couldn’t persist writing with any reliability, but it might be worth a try.
This is a very interesting question. I have not interacted with anything Tuplamancy since I was a teen. But I imagine it’s mostly doing something in language centers. But then… Idk. I need to think about this more.
There’s a tuplamancy-adjacent construct called a “servitor”, which sounds like a kind of persistent hallucination that might be able to perform various automatic functions. I can’t imagine such a thing being any more useful than a smartphone (probably much less), but perhaps it would have a faster direct-mental interface.
For example, I wonder if some kind of “notepad” servitor could expand one’s working memory, which seems like a major bottleneck in humans. I.e. quickly offload writing/images to the persistent hallucination, and then just look at it to reload it. This would be easy enough to test with something like digit-span or dual-n-back.
Given the way reading fails to work in dreams (it gets completely confabulated based on expectations, and then erased/regenerated as soon as you look away/back), I think there’s a significant chance a servitor couldn’t persist writing with any reliability, but it might be worth a try.
This is a very interesting question. I have not interacted with anything Tuplamancy since I was a teen. But I imagine it’s mostly doing something in language centers. But then… Idk. I need to think about this more.