Starsaver August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 I'm more interested, if i'd talk to my cat alot like to a person, would he gain sentience?
Guest Anonymous August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 Psst He is a deep undercover spy, so deep, he does not even realize he is one of the FatLasse organization. Kidding, he is french. He inhaled too much fine moldy cheese and now he is on a brain vacation. Now that I think about it though, people have talked about binding a tulpa to an object before. And crazy cat people do talk to their cats often. Mayhaps people create tulpae bound to their cats, and then think their cats can talk, but really, they made a low level catbound tulpa. Or they are really good at parroting for their kitties or they are cat whisperers. Many possibilities.
Frosty August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 Psst He is a deep undercover spy, so deep, he does not even realize he is one of the FatLasse organization. Kidding, he is french. He inhaled too much fine moldy cheese and now he is on a brain vacation. Now that I think about it though, people have talked about binding a tulpa to an object before. And crazy cat people do talk to their cats often. Mayhaps people create tulpae bound to their cats, and then think their cats can talk, but really, they made a low level catbound tulpa. Or they are really good at parroting for their kitties or they are cat whisperers. Many possibilities. *ahem* WILSONNN!!!! I suppose a cat would be slightly more interesting than a soccer ball... Tulpa's name: April Form: Human female Working on: Stuff My Progress Log "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." ~ Robert Oxton Bolton
Guest Anonymous August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 WILSONNN!!!! I suppose a cat would be slightly more interesting than a soccer ball... Wilson is far superior to any soccer ball. He died a hero, there were sharks in those waters, he sacrificed by drawing them away toward himself so nobly. WILSONNN!!!! You are tearing me apart! Silly idea: Get good at speedily making tulpae, bind them to all animals that you interact with on a regular basis, and then become some sort of ranger or druid. Learn to trade places with possession. Suddenly, the spell Polymorph just got reale.
DoctorSprocket August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 I'm more interested, if i'd talk to my cat alot like to a person, would he gain sentience? Yes. Not the actual cat but you will perceive speech for your cat instead and a create complex personality more so than the average pet. My friend unknowingly created a tupla that is his cat. He talks to it in a way that sounds like half a conversation. So yes you can make it gain "sentience" but it won't be the actual cat rather your perception of the cat. Name: Assistant Form: Human female Progress Report Last night I said I didn't have a name for her and was cut off with a reply. I couldn't hear the beginning properly but it sounded like Dori but I couldn't hear the first letter as clear and can't tell whether it was an N or a D What's her name?
Guest Anonymous August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 So it can and has happened in a situation that we have personally experienced. Excellent. Altering personal reality for purposes of talking to pet cats. Isn't this existence at its finest? Manipulation of the limiting self perceptions that bind the observers. In response to the original post, fluffy ponies can not become smarter than the idiotic things they already are. They are limited by their creators' whims. That is to say, they are doomed to idiocy. A curse of their species, you could say.
FigN01 August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 Tulpamancing level: crazy cat lady. That's on par with saying my grandma made a tulpa from an angel statue in her garden from having talked to it about her day all the time. If that thing did gain sentience, it's probably been neglected to death since she moved out of that house. I don't think you could fool yourself into seeing sentience without knowing what you're doing. There's a definite difference between personifying an animal with some intelligence to start and actually believing it to be capable of thought and intellect equal to a person's. Most people do talk down to their pets if they talk to them at all; a tulpa takes a lot more conviction than that.
Guest Anonymous August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 Tulpamancing level: crazy cat lady. Oh, I like that. That is a level I wish to reach someday. a tulpa takes a lot more conviction than that. Talking down to them is common, but my friend's Nana comes to mind as a good counterexample. Their dog is a cool dude with a rough attitude, and Nana talks to him as though he entirely understands. Don't you give me that sass mister. You better behave yourself, now. I've taught you better than that. He isn't really a sassy dog, but Nana is a little crazy, and is serious about this, even though my friend has told her many times otherwise. She seems to be on the border at least of instilling some intelligence in it, and believing it to be of equal intelligence to herself. She is very sweet, but she isn't all that smart, so she may very well consider herself the dog's equal. He is a cute pup. Tulpamancing level: Nana. Less likely than people forming their own low level God tulpae, but it could still happen. People love their pets, will spend as much money on their medical bills as they would another family member. I can see the conviction to believe being there.
Citizen Anon August 24, 2012 August 24, 2012 Holy shit this thread made me realize Wilson is probably the best example of a tulpa-esque character in a movie since Fight Club Name: Lyra Form: http://i.imgur.com/JjMxK.jpg Sentience: Emotional responses, occasional brief vocalization Currently doing: Personality & narration
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