We’ve all heard the idea that there exists two selves, the self that exists in your own mind, and the self that exists inside the perceptions of others.
Intentionally created ‘tulpa’ must be similar to the emulations of so many people I’ve closely interacted. The ones that exist lurking in my subconscious mind. Instantiated via my intuitions of how they’d respond to a question, or wondering what gifts they would appreciate.
How about in dream characters. Is it wrong to murder dream characters, and should we strive to lengthen dream time to give them all a longer more fulfilled life?
Even the morality of sci-fi brain emulation is murky to me. Let alone the type of emulation we all do unconsciously ourselves. I’d have to hear a very convincing argument to separate tulpas that say “hi I’m here and alive!” from dream characters that do the same thing, or other illusions like chat gtp.
Intentionally created ‘tulpa’ must be similar to the emulations of so many people I’ve closely interacted. The ones that exist lurking in my subconscious mind. Instantiated via my intuitions of how they’d respond to a question, or wondering what gifts they would appreciate.
One difference is that the kind of emulation you have for other people doesn’t tend to worry about their own existence. Tulpas tend to unpromptedly worry about their own existence.
We’ve all heard the idea that there exists two selves, the self that exists in your own mind, and the self that exists inside the perceptions of others.
Intentionally created ‘tulpa’ must be similar to the emulations of so many people I’ve closely interacted. The ones that exist lurking in my subconscious mind. Instantiated via my intuitions of how they’d respond to a question, or wondering what gifts they would appreciate.
How about in dream characters. Is it wrong to murder dream characters, and should we strive to lengthen dream time to give them all a longer more fulfilled life?
Even the morality of sci-fi brain emulation is murky to me. Let alone the type of emulation we all do unconsciously ourselves. I’d have to hear a very convincing argument to separate tulpas that say “hi I’m here and alive!” from dream characters that do the same thing, or other illusions like chat gtp.
One difference is that the kind of emulation you have for other people doesn’t tend to worry about their own existence. Tulpas tend to unpromptedly worry about their own existence.