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If not precisely dealt with in the personality stage how do tulpae in general end up feeling about their nature as tulpae, more precisely how do they end up feeling about limitations they have as tulpae?

One of my moral dilemmas about creating tulpa is about creating something that resembles humans in mind and through that in aspirations but lacks a body necessary to fulfill them.

I realize you can deal with this in personality stage but to be honest cutting out and/or forbidding traits that would otherwise go well with tulpa's overall nature seems too limiting and results in somewhat paradoxal personality.

On top of that deviations do happen so not even that is infallible.

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There's a member in the IRC who has a tulpa dealing with this very issue. From what I heard, she's fairly upset that she'll never be able to love anyone like her creator can love others or something.

 

Kinda sad.

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It's commonly said (FAQ's guides) that tulpae will be perfectly okay with their limitations, but that's not really true. From the IRC channel, ImLuc said that after he gave his tulpa access to his memories, she got depressed "about the people she would miss or something"; itsblah's tulpa got philosophical about whether her existence has a point if all she does and experiences is but an illusion.

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I know V&A said Vinyl doesn't like being told she's imaginary. At least a fluffy pony is too stupid to realize it's just a hallucination. But that's my second, so hopefully my Vinyl doesn't go all Freud on me.

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From what I've heard, most tulpae know what they are and don't have a problem with it. There are benefits too: not having the bother or operating a physical body, being immune to most damage and illness, direct conscious control over appearance, being real in the wonderland where you can ascribe them some godlike powers.

 

There's also the possibility of possession, which would let the tulpa do things that require a body.

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I know V&A said Vinyl doesn't like being told she's imaginary. At least a fluffy pony is too stupid to realize it's just a hallucination. But that's my second, so hopefully my Vinyl doesn't go all Freud on me.

 

Right, and we're just qualia to you, right Rustler?

 

No. What defines something as real is them having experience. If a tulpa believes it has experience and acts as having experience, it may very well have experience. You don't need anything more than that.

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I still don't understand what you said. We create the tulpas, so if I want to make my fluffy pony retarded, it could quite possibly end up that way.

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I still don't understand what you said. We create the tulpas, so if I want to make my fluffy pony retarded, it could quite possibly end up that way.

 

The problem is that the fluffy pony claiming it's real would be less stupid than you claiming it's not real. The reason why this is so would require you to think harder about what it is like to be something and how do you know you exist.

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Mine seems to realize she's a tulpa, and while it makes her a little sad that she can't interact with the physical world in any meaningful way, she's optimistic enough to see that being a tulpa has its benefits too. For one, being a psychic freeloader and not having to do anything she doesn't want to.

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