I believe that you can teach your brain to believe anything given enough time and effort.
I also believe that the things in your mind should not be considered fake or fiction. Think about it this way. Your mind is real. The things in your mind influence your mind, so they are obviously real. Now, I'm not saying they're "real" physical objects, because they aren't. They're in your imagination.
Now, others may say that the things in your mind are not real, but that is not true. They cannot see the things in your mind, because they are in your mind, not theirs; that does not change the fact that those things do exist. They just exist specifically in your mind.
Sorry, I'm terrible at explaining things, but pretty much what I'm saying is that just because something isn't physical doesn't mean it isn't real. If it can interact with anything else in any way (or vice versa, if something else can interact with it in any way), it is real. If that makes any sense.
8:46 PM
Which is why I'm not at all surprised by tulpas at all. Imagination is real, and the brain can be trained. It's such a wonderful thing, the things one can do with their mind.
Yes. And imaginary things can have very real repercussions, as long as they’re recognised by many people. Just look at religion, money, and social structures like capitalism or communism. They’re all built up from imaginary concepts that have become very real.
As long as people acknowledge the difference between conceptually real and literally real things, all is well.
9:26 PM
Social structures are literally real. The value of fiat currency is conceptually real, and is taken as "real" because it is practical and a literal authority says that it is.
9:27 PM
Imagination is making things that are "real" in that they exist conceptually, but they are not "real" in that they have absolutely no relevance to anything else other than your own imagination.
9:28 PM
Even our own experience of senses is "conceptually real", as taste, for example, is different between different individuals due to the way different brains process the same stimulus. The stimulus is literally real - the processing generates a "sense" that is not literally real.
9:28 PM
You can also see this when perception starts breaking down.
So before this I tried researching and and theorizing how to build an android and I decided to use things like nano biological components, a musuloskeletal system and a learning AI
1:42 AM
I kind of dropped it to work on Natt but just recently I thought about bringing it back but instead of using an AI to operate the body it's a type of neural interface. BCI (Brain controlled interfaces) if you will.
1:43 AM
All the host would need to do is hookup via neural implant or something similar
1:45 AM
It would definitely take some time for the tulpa to get used to
It isn't stupid, but I think you are going to very rapidly run into the "harder to do than it is to say" wall when it comes to this sort of stuff. Neural implants that could be used to have a tulpa control a robot as you do your body would require a small team of PHD's with millions of dollars and a ton of funding.
1:54 AM
That said, something more simple, even an EEG(or whatever diy sort of thing you can get to pick up brain signals?) moving a motor, would be a very cool place to start if you're looking to get into that sort of thing.
The hard part is splitting the brain. Even if some kind of transfer were possible and tulpas were physically provable, I don't see any way that one could separate out which bits were "you" and which were "your tulpa", if indeed that's even how it works, which I don't think it is.
ok vr space with headset and what not you see out one eye you tulpa sees out the other(may not be possible but I don't think anyone has tried), you use a controller to move and look around, your tulpa uses a muscle twitch reading(hooked up to your feet maybe with them possessing them) thing to move and look around
Okay... I'm in a pretty gnostic state right now and it's like I've activated the developer's console for my brain. The sensation of me just rubbing my leg can be painful, hot, cold, sexy, what the fuck ever, as long as I ask Cille to make it so.
5:14 AM
Damn, I wish my brain had Ethernet so I could see what happens if I run sudo apt-get install ubuntu on it
