Tulpa Parallel Processing Test

[Guest MegaBusta]

My tulpas are better at this than I am. They can get a perfect score by the second or third try but I cant seem to get a hang of it.

 

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[Karkat Vantas]

Zye and I got perfect scores on our fourth try. This is great! Thank you so much!

[Spartanelete]

We've tried it 3 times. We come close, but we can never seem to be accurate enough.

 

My oldest tulpa(7 months) participated.

[Tetrax]

1st try: I got it right, she was off by 2.

2nd and 3rd time we both scored perfectly.

I was actually surprised when she got them right. Good job with the program, we're waiting for more!

[Wrath]

Don't have a tulpa, this is impossible to do. I will report back once I develop one to see the difference in results.

 

I think that tulpas aren't entirely separate during early sentience and still share a portion of concentration, without which they go dormant. Maybe this is why people are getting imperfect scores when true parallel processing it would be effortless to count one set of balls.

[Ashmo]

Bud isn't really vocal enough to play yet, though he did give the right amount the first time and I was only off by one number. This is really enjoyable!

[Luminesce]

(I don't normally necropost but this still seems like a relevant thread.)

 

So.

 

We can't do it. First try we both lost count after.. well, after "Three, four, five, six, six, seven seven seven..." Second try I got up to 12 and Reisen was completely lost. Third try, my mind was switching back and forth quickly (the only multitasking I thought the human brain was capable of?) to count them both, but it was just me and not her. Also lost count around 12. Fifth try and I was actually disheartened - I couldn't even do it alone, I lost track after ten reds, and I certainly wasn't parallel processing, just switching.

 

I'm pretty good at most puzzles, generally open minded I think, and I really take pride in my mental/personal development. So it actually bothers me a lot that so many people (deviantart comments, too) did this just fine, at worst being 2+ off.. That means I'm entirely missing a mental-process-prowess many others have. And that is genuinely new to me. I am legitimately both confused and intrigued here.

 

 

I'm gonna keep looking for ways to practice parallel-processing (what led me here), but I also think bringing this thread to some newer members' attention could be beneficial. I've seen plenty of success responses already, but I'm still interested for more peoples' results and hopefully thoughts on the subject.

[sushi]

Thanks. I can never find this when I'm looking for it.

 

The big problem with this is that guesses will come pretty close most of the time, so it's hard to tell what's legitimately parallel processing and what's dumb luck.

[Luminesce]

I looked up tips for learning to play piano with both hands at the same time (never could do this while casually teaching myself to play) because it was the only thing I could find. And my suspicions were correct - they advised you to read the notes on the sheet vertically rather than horizontally, ie. combine them into a single action. I didn't mention that part in my last post, but I meant to. Humans can multitask either by learning to switch between tasks quickly.. OR, by combining separate tasks into a single task, mentally. Basically instead of "Do this AND this", you turn it into "Do these", which is really just a more complicated "Do this".

 

Which is why, until attempting that test, I thought I knew how to multitask. But after failing parallel processing and instinctively resorting to quick-switching, I realized I really have an issue with this. But whereas playing piano you turn separate notes into a single action (though notes occurring at different times for different lengths still seems humanly impossible), having separate thoughts at the same time (or keeping count of two separate things, at the same time) seems different. Right? You aren't combining the two counts into a single one, you're keeping two completely separate counts which requires actual parallel processing, or rapidly switching between counting each separately. Which I was able to do, but it just wasn't the same, especially since it could only be either me or Reisen but not both of us doing so.

 

So the mystery of parallel processing still eludes me. But I'll figure it out.

But all I can think of is improving your ability to combine multiple tasks into a single one ohmygodthisisimplausiblesendhelp

 

[Luminesce]

Sushi himself said there's not much documented research on tulpa parallel processing, so I'll keep putting things here when it's relevant.

 

I noticed something today, while talking to Tewi. Though we speak in words mentally, the full meaning usually comes across fairly instantaneously while the words are almost a formality, for clarity. Often my tulpas or I will start a sentence and the other will reply to it before the sentence was technically over, because the meaning was already established. Not always, but it happens. And that would mean switching attention away from the speaker to the other, ending the sentence.

 

Tewi had said, or was saying, something that made me laugh ~outside of my mind, which usually means my focus is off mental expression and anyone who was talking would probably stop. But she wanted to say the full sentence, so actually continued speaking while I laughed. And that's something we've never done before - tulpa and host expressing themselves at the same time, aka parallel processing. And it felt like I thought it would, like working a foreign mental muscle for the first time. (Sort of like the dream recall "muscle", how you can "feel it stretching" when you first start using it) That sort of clicked with something one of my tulpas had said about practicing parallel processing, that you should start small and simple and work your way up. Determining precise methods of practicing is a bit difficult, but I'm going to start by no longer interrupting any mental speaking and attempting to keep my own attention during it. Really focusing on your tulpas' or your own mental speaking usually requires your direct focus, but I can tell there's some leeway to begin splitting that focus. Even if it was only laughing while my tulpa spoke at first, it seems like it could lead to fuller parallel processing in the future, so I'll follow that.

 

Also, the process of learning seems to be pretty much the same as when learning to play an instrument with two hands, just with less solid means of practicing. I watched someone play a harp and was just dumbfounded by how they'd learned to play with two hands at once doing completely different things. Let's see if I learn to parallel process tulpas or piano first..