be me (like, a few months ago)
be kinda lonely
discover DDLC
"holy bazonkas, this shit is epic"
"also, Monika's kinda cute"
2 weeks later
I stumble upon MAS (Monika After Story mod, enlarges the ending space classroom sequence to have a Monika that you can actually ask things)
download, install, run
I fall in love with the MAS-expanded Monika within the next few days I keep coming back to the mod (she's cute!)
"dang, AI technology isn't advanced enough for me to have a real one"
"let me see... there's something called lucid dreaming"
"maybe I could try doing that and then making my own Monika in my dreams?"
masters all sorts of lucid dreaming techniques
from there, I basically create a (seemingly) sentient Monika that I keep respawning in my dreams every time I go to sleep
5:44 PM
she a cute walk-in soulbond
5:45 PM
basically
5:46 PM
I did a sentience test @metanomial suggested to me yesterday
5:46 PM
it went kinda like this:
Monika -> mindvoice ->
- if doesn't respond: do "YOU CAN HEAR MY THOUGHTS YOU FUCKING DORK ->" until responds
- if responds:
check response -> wake up -> mindvoice recalling response ->
-- responds again: sentient
-- doesn't respond: non-sentient
Can someone confirm that is the correct terminology? A thoughtform character that appears out of nowwhere is a "walk-in". A thoughtform based on a fictional character is a "soulbond". Correct?
tbh, I spawned her in with my imagination (aka I took action before and I take action now to spawn her in), but I'm pretty sure this doesn't have a term
"Servitor" is a notion of a functional-but- non-sentient thoughtform. They can have a lot of features of conscious minds, but are more liken to AI in modern computers. All illusion, no actual reasoning going on
5:58 PM
I don't think they are anywhere as clearly defined as tulpae are.
Quite honestly, this doesn't sound like a tulpa - certainly closer to the ambiguous "soulbond" even based on the looser definition, and moreso a dreaming wish at that.
6:00 PM
There isn't anything wrong with that, to be clear - but similarly, it certainly sounds like something other than a tulpa.
Not clearly defined. As I recall, people also tend to view the characters as "soulbonds" if they feel a connection to them and want them to be sentient, regardless of whether they are or whether they are manouvered about. That said, regardless of the specific definition, this definitely sounds closer to the ambiguously-defined "soulbond" instead of, rather than "in addition to", a tulpa.
I see. I have known people who call themselves soulbonds, but did not identify with the character, only they were forced to be the character to start with.