Can tulpas create feedback for senses that don't work anymore?

[motorheadlk]

 

It doesn't quite work like that.

After all, things often taste nothing like they smell.

I'm sure someone who was born unable to taste, would not be able to accurately conceptualize the sense of taste, even if their nose is in full, working condition.

 

Yes, it does.

 

When things don't taste like they smell, it's mainly because the particles that are being carried away by the air do not represent all the particles that wat is giving the smell contain, thus making the taste, which has all the particles, different. An example would be chocolate shampoos, that smell great but taste awful. What is liberated from the shampoo is just a essence that smells good, but the shampoo itself doesn't taste good.

 

Just because you're sure doesn't make you right. The sense of taste is nothing but a stronger version of the sense of smell. You think that someone that only has the sense of smell can't have the sense of taste conceptualized because it appears different, but it only does because the process of eating involves lot's of other stuff that blurries the actual taste of something like the monoamins released when you eat something really good.

 

Even if it was true that it wouldn't be the actual same thing, he could always conceptualize to make it look closer, for example, he could impose that a tulpa that has "2" taste has a "1" smell, which means that it is something similar and weaker and that can that grows stronger as he approaches his tulpa.

[Rythym Flow]

In response to Rhythm Flow up there, I really don't understand the question. How does your brain adjusting to your poor sight decrease the chance of surgical success?

 

The I have fairly bad cataract in both eyes and I can have surgery to replace the scarred and damaged lenses with synthetic lenses.

 

However I went to a specialist who hooked me up to and EEG and scanned my brain while I focused on several images.

 

In the section of my vision clouded by the cataract my brain was ignoring the incoming signal so even if I was to get the cataract removed my brain would still ignore the information on the spots that my eyes where damaged.

 

Could i use visualization to remove these inactive area's post surgery? (when the cataract are no longer there but the message is still not being recived by the brain)

[waffles]

Unlikely, I would guess. Hallucination comes in after the vision is processed by the brain, so even if you visualised things in the place of damaged spots, I would guess that this wouldn't affect the brain's ignoring it, I think. I'm far from an expert though, and I may well be wrong on that.

[motorheadlk]

Unlikely, I would guess. Hallucination comes in after the vision is processed by the brain, so even if you visualised things in the place of damaged spots, I would guess that this wouldn't affect the brain's ignoring it, I think. I'm far from an expert though, and I may well be wrong on that.

 

"Hallucination comes in after the vision is processed by the brain".

What makes you say that? I always thought that the unconscious/subconscious that does the work of decoding the rays of light also does the work of imposing an hallucination, which would mean that a hallucination would come before or at the same time that you see an image.

 

 

And now I know for sure that I don't know when to use "a" and when to use "an"

 

[waffles]

The region of the brain responsible for visual processing - the visual cortex - is divided into regions V1 through 5. It is generally thought that complex hallucination is effected in regions V3 through 5, and, though I am not a neurologist, I would suspect that the filtering of information responsible for Rhy's problem is located in V1, the first area on the path. V1 receives strong feedback only from V2, so it's reasonable to say that this model doesn't allow for complex hallucination to alter the function of the forward regions.

[motorheadlk]

The region of the brain responsible for visual processing - the visual cortex - is divided into regions V1 through 5. It is generally thought that complex hallucination is effected in regions V3 through 5, and, though I am not a neurologist, I would suspect that the filtering of information responsible for Rhy's problem is located in V1, the first area on the path. V1 receives strong feedback only from V2, so it's reasonable to say that this model doesn't allow for complex hallucination to alter the function of the forward regions.

 

I see. How would pills that handle hallucinations like the ones caused by schizophrenia work on this area of the brain, then? Wouldn't take them have the same effect of being able to see what you would normally see?

[waffles]

Drugs to handle hallucinations would work on the regions that hallucinations originate from, presumably. For complex hallucination, that might be V3-5. I would think that Rhy's problem isn't a hallucination, but part of a screening process that takes place in the visual cortex, so I would guess that anti-hallucinogens wouldn't affect this. Again, I don't know, and I could well be wrong about this.

[Sands]

 

And now I know for sure that I don't know when to use "a" and when to use "an"

 

 

 

When the word starts with a vowel sound, it has an. An apple. If it starts with a consonant sound, it's a. A cat. Note vowel sound, not vowel: a unicorn, not an.

 

[motorheadlk]

 

 

When the word starts with a vowel sound, it has an. An apple. If it starts with a consonant sound, it's a. A cat. Note vowel sound, not vowel: a unicorn, not an.

 

 

 

Thank you very much. It seems that my english classes taught me this a lot of times already, I don't have idea why it didn't stick. I'll not forget it anymore.

 

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Drugs to handle hallucinations would work on the regions that hallucinations originate from, presumably. For complex hallucination, that might be V3-5. I would think that Rhy's problem isn't a hallucination, but part of a screening process that takes place in the visual cortex, so I would guess that anti-hallucinogens wouldn't affect this. Again, I don't know, and I could well be wrong about this.

 

Understood. Thanks.

[Onicron]

 

When things don't taste like they smell, it's mainly because the particles that are being carried away by the air do not represent all the particles that wat is giving the smell contain, thus making the taste, which has all the particles, different. An example would be chocolate shampoos, that smell great but taste awful. What is liberated from the shampoo is just a essence that smells good, but the shampoo itself doesn't taste good.

 

Just because you're sure doesn't make you right. The sense of taste is nothing but a stronger version of the sense of smell...

 

Even if it was true that it wouldn't be the actual same thing, he could always conceptualize to make it look closer, for example, he could impose that a tulpa that has "2" taste has a "1" smell, which means that it is something similar and weaker and that can that grows stronger as he approaches his tulpa.

 

A human can taste about five different flavours: bitter, sweet, salt etc. and smell up to 10 000 different odors. The smell reseptors in the nose and the taste reseptors in the mouth are linked with different parts of the brain, thus making them separate senses.

 

Regarding the question in the OP, yes. Even if someone was born blind, their tulpa could induce something similiar to sight (I'd imagine it being somewhat linked with hearing and touch), sort of a feeling of touching the space they are. Same applies to anything, really and one wouldn't need a tulpa to do so. Our mind is only limited by our imagination and if we can imagine how a certain sense that we've lost through evolution, we can imagine having that sense, even though it propably will be a lot different compared to someone (or something) actually having that sense.

 

An experiment: Give your tulpa a magnet and imagine yourself having the ability to sense magnetism from the mind item. Now tell your tulpa to move the magnet while you're sustaining the belief of a new sense.

 

I tried this with Shai and it felt like the magnet was pulling something inside my brain in the direction she was in. I had also some mild sight hallucinations, when she was on my left side I saw a mild white glow in the left side of my eyes and when I watched directly into the magnet it generated a sort of halo around it.

 

E: typos