Ilúvatar August 12, 2012 August 12, 2012 So hullo everyone. I've been following this forum for awhile its really very interesting, and I've been wanting to create my own tulpa. I haven't done so though due to a lack of focus. Hopefully I'll get started soon and just keep it up. That's not what this post is about though. So earlier in the summer my grandmother died of Alzheimer's. Now I'm not telling you this to look for sympathy or anything. In fact I'd rather not have your sympathy, but I was wondering if she had a tulpa would it have helped her if not survive the disease maybe live longer at least? The disease is characterized by first short term memory loss to eventually forgetfulness of who people are and other important life events. It also shows an odd or strange (both for the lack of a better word) change of personality. Now those symptoms seem like something a tulpa would help keep at bay, but some research has apparently shown that Alzheimer's is caused by tangles and plaque in the brain in which case I'm not sure that a tulpa would be able to do anything to slow the progress of the disease. Since these causes seem to be physical and not psychological I feel that maybe Alzheimer's may just lead to the pre-mature death of a tulpa, and that a tulpa really would not be able to help slow down the disease at all. What do you think? For those of you that don't know anything about Alzheimer's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's_disease "My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it." ~ Jubal Hershaw from A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Ilúvatar August 12, 2012 Author August 12, 2012 Thanks =) Yea I guess so. Just wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on the matter. "My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it." ~ Jubal Hershaw from A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Asgardian August 12, 2012 August 12, 2012 Well, considering that multiligual people, musicians and to some degree scientists tend to have much less damage mental damage for a long time, I think the idea itself is viable. The brain has a very strong mental constant after all, and the will to survive/fight always plays a role. Alzheimer's (which is most likely a prion caused desease) may be a physical illness, but the brain is able to produce substances propably inhibiting the delirious process. Furthermore started the brain to shift the lost functions from the damaged tissue to still healthy (something normally not happening in "average" people), making the only way to discover some of the above mentioned people as ill to have an autopsy afterwards. Tl;dr I do think a tulpa can do good here. "Sorry for that, my communication implants are idiologically biased."
FigN01 August 12, 2012 August 12, 2012 If you already have alzheimer's disease, I doubt you'd be able to create a tulpa due to so much short term memory loss. If you had a tulpa before the disease set in, maybe. It's all speculation.
Asgardian August 12, 2012 August 12, 2012 If you already have alzheimer's disease, I doubt you'd be able to create a tulpa due to so much short term memory loss. If you had a tulpa before the disease set in, maybe. It's all speculation. Well, if you already have it, propably not. Only prevention could be a thing. "Sorry for that, my communication implants are idiologically biased."
bila bila August 13, 2012 August 13, 2012 I was thinking about this myself but I think a tulpa can't do anything about it seeing that it is a physical disease. Well I wonder if anyone has had that experience.
NotAnonymous August 13, 2012 August 13, 2012 It might slow down the onset and progress of the illness, in the same way that certain mental exercises would slow down memory loss, however this is all speculation based on little evidence.
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