When talking about establishing or de-establishing habitual behavior, the point is that the change needs to be reinforced enough to cause that habitual behavior to change so that you achieve your desired automatic behavior.
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In other words, if you stop actively putting in effort to resist the inclination, will you continue to do it?
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...I will also point out - there is actually a study about this, as opposed to the anecdotes happening here.
@SkyeNet Two consciousnesses in the same brain maintaining simultaneous separate perspectives in the form of sensory input and thoughts. Also, if you remove the word "simultaneous" from that sentence, you get my definition of plurality in general.
That being said, while you can't simply (immediately) rewrite the hardwiring of the brain, a lot of things can be trained like "muscles" to function better, ie dream recall or just plain old memory.(edited)
Don't have the time rn to read through the whole study, but the abstract was more than enough to sort of prove your point. It depends on the habit, of course if they give them harmless habits they aren't going to have the willpower to erase it fast, but if you put in the effort, it goes away a lot faster
[Well anyway. I still believe in insta-tulpas. Because the primary habits you need is empathy/ability to see things in different perspectives and dissociation. And then you just apply and you have another being. Kinda funny.]
@Abvieon {Alex} My point is that the "simultaneous consciousness" you refer to is most likely an illusion, seeing as it is based on your internal perspective.
The Thomas theorem is a theory of sociology which was formulated in 1928 by William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899–1977):
In other words, the interpretation of a situation causes the action. This interpretation is not objective. A...
I think a computer analogy does work well here, your brain is a single-core processor and as such can not multitask, so simultaneous tasks do not really work. In reality, you're going between the two tasks quickly, and true multitasking lowers brain efficiency in the long run. It's like 2 threads running on one core, they aren't simultaneous but they're close enough to create the illusion.
[Well I haven't really decided on that. To much effort to go to deeply into philosophy. Sete thinks that though and I don't mind the view, though I don't care too much for it beyond things I care about... humm]
reguile lmfao, I have so many programs from years ago which I made in grade school that are incredibly hacky and jumbled together like they were done by monkey with a copy of notepad++ but they work really well for some ungodly reason, that was too relatable(edited)
@Sete Then, with all due respect, I don't recommend commenting on scientific research that depends on base concepts the typical person develops beyond childhood.
@Abvieon {Alex} I would believe that tulpas are quite similar to how you defined plurality in general - specifically, that tulpas are conscious as much as the host, though they typically would be reactive rather than proactive and respond to stimulus rather than causing it.
They are "simultaneous" in that there is the illusion of simultaneous thought. For most people, that's wonderful and they can believe they have simultaneous thought.
The question behind tulpamancy is not necessarily "can we do two things at once" but is often more along the lines of "can we do two very intensive things at once while we are very aware of one and totally unaware of the other".
[Hey I am proactive! Granted I am more proactive when I am fronting but still. Something about always having to be proactive in that situation.](edited)
@Abvieon {Alex} Engaging in conversation where they noticed something they wanted to talk about is reacting to simulus - reacting to whatever they noticed.
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Actively going out of one's way to talk to somebody, without any prompting - that is proactive.
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...to be fair, most people are fairly reactive rather than proactive.
Holy shit Skye, you don't have to be so pretentious all the time in a discussion. There's a line between coming off as smart and coming off as an arrogant prick who thinks he's superior to everyone here and you cross it big time.
[Helps that he seems to totally ignore the bodies stimilus all the time or doesn't react to it. I mean when me or Set front we are way more aware of the body than he ever is.]
Why even bother talking about physical structure of the brain? I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that within this discord chat that's an utterly pointless topic.
[Interesting. What is actually multitasking? Doing 2 tasks at ones. I think something more interesting could be focus. The brains focus and how it moves. What are you focused on? Your tulpa? The entire brain? How much focus do you have? Seems more interesting than actual actions. Like I take some focus when acting and Sete has some. The more I take the less he gets.]
Based on someone speaking on studies of multitasking in a TED talk, the accepted psychological definition seems to be quickly and efficiently switching between tasks. They're being done "at the same time" only in a longer-term general sense, ie doing homework and talking to friends, but not a literal one.
