Regarding evidence vs popularity, remember that people used to believe that illness was caused by demons. People used to believe that many mental illnesses were also... Demons.
7:53 PM
Clearly we may end up learning more and needing to fundamentally change our beliefs, but ideally, beliefs should follow evidence. Not the other way around.
Placebo can help, and with sustained effort can certainly have real effects on ways of thinking, but it is limited and doesn't allow large changes to take place without time and effort reinforcing them.
I suppose that, in the end, I hold to the research showing that it takes time to alter the brain's thinking. The connections between neurons don't start out strong at the outset, they are developed with repeated and consistent use - reinforcement.
Look at it like an atomic computer action. The creation of a new process is atomic. This can explain sudden personality shifts. Modifying an active process is not atomic. It involves many small changes.
Even statements like Abveion's - that there has not been research into the psychology of multiplicity - aren't particularly useful here as there isn't multiplicity yet.
8:04 PM
Context personalities are developed from repeated interaction.
Alright. I would love to see that, actually - I know that it is documented along with physical changes, or shifts in certain contexts where they change to another type of context personality out of frustration with the situation or when "the mask comes off" in abusive situations.
The basic difference between roleplay and tulpa is emulation versus native. The reason I find the new data interesting is because. the idea that it takes time for the brain to learn something implies that tulpas are emulated.
Right - or that, at least, quite a few tulpas are emulated.
8:12 PM
...and, naturally, differentiating between these is not particularly easy.
8:13 PM
I don't particularly care to try and call out every single tulpa I might think is emulated, because that would be pointless in the absence of a serious problem in their behavior - what I will call out is advice for people to emulate a tulpa rather than trying to make one that is native.
I just poked in.. There is a definite delay as the brain rewires functions, but what if functions are already there? You can't tulpa instantly, but for instance a tulpamancer already with one tulpa can build another one much easier and faster
But, at the same time, again. Even if a tulpa were solely a set of behavioral changes, or something like that - those take weeks despite other behavioral patterns established... or more importantly, despite knowing an efficient way of establishing/deestablishing those behavioral patterns.
