Tulpas Making Tulpas, Extent of Brain Capacity, and Simulating Worlds

[Lacquer]

I posted a tiny bit about this in my progress report, but it isn't really worth reading.

 

I had the idea of simulating a world and a people.

 

You would make an entire planet in your wonderland, separated completely from the rest of it. This would have no access out of it, but you could go in and observe it. You would put two tulpas in there, as "Adam" and "Eve", and they wouldn't have memory of you, your other tulpas, or the rest of the wonderland. You would establish rules about how the world functions and see what happens. Things like the tulpas need to nourish themselves oto survive. The main idea is to see tulpas making tulpas, so you could make it such that it requires two tulpas to make another tulpa.

 

Eventually, the planet would be populated with many tulpas. The goal here is to see how many tulpas a human brain could hold, and to see if something like this would be possible with tulpas creating tulpas without interaction from the host human.

 

Just an idea, and it should be tweaked to make more sense and run better. I cannot do this now, as I don't have the skills to do it or tulpas to help me. I am putting this out there so different people can try it and get different results. Who knows, this may lead to some people having fifty or more tulpas.

[Sands]

I don't like the idea as it's basically just lying to them. I'm sure one's existence is great fun when you're just an experiment and a plaything to someone. Except you don't know and your whole life is a lie, but it will be great once you find out. And by that I mean not.

[Traional]

I'm new on this forum, but i'm currently making a tulpa of my own. Anyway I think it's an interesting idea, and I doubt it's been tried before

[DashieFactory]

[GLaDOS: Hm. This seems like a rather intriguing idea. We'll have to try it. For science of course.]

 

It is an interesting idea. If and when you do attempt this, good luck from us.

[Flexionsensor]

Well, how many tulpae is the record? I think about 6. I don't know how long it would take for your mind to explode though...

[Guest EnnervateIndustries]

So, basically:

 

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Levity aside, it sounds like it would work, but would probably be extremely difficult.

[Lacquer]

Last I heard, JD1215 has 15, and if we include other types of multiplicity, 25 is the norm, with others having many more. But then again, having a tulpa based off existing characters without a form is different than one that is entirely unique (as tulpas making tulpas would make so) and has a form.

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be extremely difficult.

 

Well the whole idea is to set up the framework then leave it alone for a while, so see if it can run on its own.

[Wrath]

I don't think it will work.

[Guest Anonymous]

Dunbar's number states you can have around ~150 decent relationships with people before you start forgetting them, so that's probably the cap for the number of tulpas you can have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

 

Outside of the moral implications, I think that you could start this world thing and maybe produce a pretty decent sized number of tulpas before things start to deteriorate and the tulpas you've made begin to act more and more like servitors. It wouldn't surprise me if many of them lose their sentience altogether. I do think however, it'd be neat if you could impose the world like an ant farm and watch it grow.

[Chupi]

I've considered a similar but rather more ambitious experiment: Find an empty planet in my wonderland and place a pair of some sort of non-sapient critter on it. Guinea pigs or something. Then leave and come back some time later to see what has happened.

 

I see a few possibilities:

• They poof or die off.
  
• They pause and you find them in the same places you left them in.
  
• You return to find more guinea pigs.
  
• Sapient guinea pig tulpae.
  
• They evolve into some other lifeform(s).