So, I have a tulpa, and she is willing to answer any questions people might have for her. She’s not properly independent yet, so we can’t do the more interesting stuff like parallel processing, etc, unfortunately (damned akrasia).
Split brain patients can do stuff like this better than neurotypicals under certain conditions. I have not heard of anyone successfully doing this with tulpas or any other psychodynamic technique.
Being able to reliably succeed on this task is one of the tests I’ve been using. Mostly, though, it’s just a matter of trying to get to the point where we can both be focusing intently on something.
In terms of form, she’s an anthropomorphic fox. At the moment, looking at her is not noticeably different to normal visualisation, except that I don’t have to put any effort into it. Explaining it in words is somewhat hard—she’s opaque without actually occluding anything, if that makes sense.
Two people, if you count random lesswrongers, and ~300, if you count self-reporting in the last tulpa survey (although some of the reports in that survey are a bit questionable.
So, I have a tulpa, and she is willing to answer any questions people might have for her. She’s not properly independent yet, so we can’t do the more interesting stuff like parallel processing, etc, unfortunately (damned akrasia).
What experimental test could you perform to determine that you have successfully learned “parallel tulpa processing”?
Divided attention task
Split brain patients can do stuff like this better than neurotypicals under certain conditions. I have not heard of anyone successfully doing this with tulpas or any other psychodynamic technique.
Being able to reliably succeed on this task is one of the tests I’ve been using. Mostly, though, it’s just a matter of trying to get to the point where we can both be focusing intently on something.
What does your tulpa look like visually? Does it look like everything else or is it more “dreamlike”?
In terms of form, she’s an anthropomorphic fox. At the moment, looking at her is not noticeably different to normal visualisation, except that I don’t have to put any effort into it. Explaining it in words is somewhat hard—she’s opaque without actually occluding anything, if that makes sense.
you’re not the same jack with the fox tulpa who spoke to lurhman, right?
Nope.
Wait, does that mean that at least one person has been confirmed as having achieved this?
Two people, if you count random lesswrongers, and ~300, if you count self-reporting in the last tulpa survey (although some of the reports in that survey are a bit questionable.
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