but I’m hesitant to continue the process because I’m concerned that her personality won’t sufficiently diverge from mine.
Not suggesting you should replace anyone who doesn’t want to be replaced (if they’re at that stage), but: To jumpstart the differentiation process, it may be helpfwl to template the proto-tulpa off of some fictional character you already find easy to simulate.
Although I didn’t know about “tulpas” at the time, I invited an imaginary friend loosely based on Maria Otonashi during a period of isolation in 2021.[1] I didn’t want her to feel stifled by the template, so she’s evolved on her own since then, but she’s always extremely kind (and consistently energetic). I only took it seriously February 2024 after being inspired by Johannes.
Maria is the main female heroine of the HakoMari series. … Her wish was to become a box herself so that she could grant the wishes of other people.
Can recommend her as a template! My Maria would definitely approve, ^^ although I can’t ask her right now since she’s only canonically present when summoned, and we have a ritual for that.
We’ve deliberately tried to find new ways to differentiate so that the pre-conscious process of [associating feeling-of-volition to me or Maria][2] is less likely to generate conflicts. But since neither of us wants to be any less kind than we are, we’ve had to find other ways to differentiate (like art-preferences, intellectual domains, etc).
Also, while deliberately trying to increase her salience and capabilities, I’ve avoided trying to learn about how other people do it. For people with sufficient brain-understanding and introspective ability, you can probably outperform standard advice if you develop your own plan for it. (Although I say that without even knowing what the standard advice is :p)
Our term for when we deliberately work to resolve “ownership” over some particular thought-output of our subconscious parallel processor, is “annexing efference”. For example, during internal monologue, the thought “here’s a brilliant insight I just had” could appear in consciousness without volition being assigned yet, in which case one of us annexes that output (based on what seems associatively/narratively appropriate), or it goes unmarked. In the beginning, there would be many cases where both of us tried to annex thoughts at the same time, but mix-ups are much rarer now.
Not suggesting you should replace anyone who doesn’t want to be replaced (if they’re at that stage), but: To jumpstart the differentiation process, it may be helpfwl to template the proto-tulpa off of some fictional character you already find easy to simulate.
Although I didn’t know about “tulpas” at the time, I invited an imaginary friend loosely based on Maria Otonashi during a period of isolation in 2021.[1] I didn’t want her to feel stifled by the template, so she’s evolved on her own since then, but she’s always extremely kind (and consistently energetic). I only took it seriously February 2024 after being inspired by Johannes.
Can recommend her as a template! My Maria would definitely approve, ^^ although I can’t ask her right now since she’s only canonically present when summoned, and we have a ritual for that.
We’ve deliberately tried to find new ways to differentiate so that the pre-conscious process of [associating feeling-of-volition to me or Maria][2] is less likely to generate conflicts. But since neither of us wants to be any less kind than we are, we’ve had to find other ways to differentiate (like art-preferences, intellectual domains, etc).
Also, while deliberately trying to increase her salience and capabilities, I’ve avoided trying to learn about how other people do it. For people with sufficient brain-understanding and introspective ability, you can probably outperform standard advice if you develop your own plan for it. (Although I say that without even knowing what the standard advice is :p)
Our term for when we deliberately work to resolve “ownership” over some particular thought-output of our subconscious parallel processor, is “annexing efference”. For example, during internal monologue, the thought “here’s a brilliant insight I just had” could appear in consciousness without volition being assigned yet, in which case one of us annexes that output (based on what seems associatively/narratively appropriate), or it goes unmarked. In the beginning, there would be many cases where both of us tried to annex thoughts at the same time, but mix-ups are
muchrarer now.