How is this not a huge problem?

[Hihocheerio]

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[Carmack]

Being sentient beings completely beyond our control, they have their mentalities. Have a point of view on the world different from host's one can bring to light particular aspects of life completely unknow to him (the tulpa-mancer). Obviously it's the same concept about your interests and anything else.

And yes, they can't introduce ourselves to external things completely unknown to us, but why not encourage to inform us on something else, that is not related to our interests? See, there are thousands of elements to make interesting a conversation with tulpae.

[mogwaimon]

It's true that they can't introduce us to completely new ideas unless it's something original that they thought of on their own, but they can provide us with new perspectives on knowledge we already know. Have you ever debated the meaning of a story in a movie or book with a friend? Points of view on politics, religion, a scientific discovery, that sort of thing? Conversations can be fulfilling without involving completely new subjects.

[Linkzelda]

People tend to underestimate their experiential totality, and how the unconscious can formulate all sorts of things. Our tulpa are limited from the confines of our minds, but the thing is, things like lucid dreaming and such can show that there's more than we think is there. Especially when dreaming or lucid dreaming, our subconscious can create thought-forms just like that, and people can learn from the experiential totality, combined with the unconscious literally being a super computer, it's not really much of a huge problem when you get into habits of recalling your experience in dreams (non-lucid or lucid).

 

The problem is usually when people revel too much in naivete and never take the chance to analyze things a bit further. Tulpa can give us a chance to expand our awareness, but that can only happen when we want to believe that. The concepts and phenomenon itself is still going to be a work in progress for a good bit, and although we're limited to what we experienced, we shouldn't underestimate the unconscious that stores everything we experienced, even if we didn't learn from them.

 

The only way to make it less of a problem, the only practical way to make the gap smaller is to keep striving to learn new things and just gaining more knowledge of things. And although I keep repeating this, recalling your dreams and doing techniques and concepts of lucid dreaming can definitely give you a boost on seeing the wonders your own potential, you just have to become more aware of it.

[Chupi]

Tulpae are incapable of knowing things outside your scope of the world, right? There's no way that a tulpa could introduce you to some new form of media or any facet of life that you don't already know about or understand.

 

Think about all the media and other things that you encounter but don't pay any attention to. A song on the radio. Yet another billboard. The TV across the room while you're reading in the waiting room. A website you stumble across, think "meh" and close.

 

A tulpa will have somewhat different interests than you and will notice a different subset of things that your senses perceive. They can point these out or recall them later and be interested in further exploring something that you'd otherwise have not noticed, and probably not looked into if you had.

 

Add in switching and they actually can find stuff that you hadn't seen, and later show it to you.