Is my tulpa sentient yet?

[Pendekar_Borneo]

Okay, so I'm on my one week of working on my tulpa since I first forming her on saturday.

Just now, while I was walking while I imagining my tulpa walking beside me, I notice my tulpa suddenly jumps across a pipe. All I did was making her walk beside me and didn't expect her to jump.

It's in my head and I can see through my minds eye what she did and I'm wondering if that's just me parroting.

But that's not the first time she did that. Yesterday, she finished her lunch before I did, she walk infront of me and she automatically waited outside while I went to the men's room.

I know I have to assume this was her and not me parroting, but is this a sign of sentient?

[Otzee]

It's a simple answer. Did you make her do it? No? Then it's likely she had done it herself. Although take it with a grain of salt and try not to worry or think to hard about it, it seems she is becoming more self aware and doing things on her own. Just have fun and keep at it! :D

[Sands]

Wrong section.

[Nobillis]

Moved to Q & A

[Pendekar_Borneo]

Wrong section.

 

Opps

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It's a simple answer. Did you make her do it? No? Then it's likely she had done it herself. Although take it with a grain of salt and try not to worry or think to hard about it, it seems she is becoming more self aware and doing things on her own. Just have fun and keep at it! :D

 

Okay :)

[Pendekar_Borneo]

It's a simple answer. Did you make her do it? No? Then it's likely she had done it herself. Although take it with a grain of salt and try not to worry or think to hard about it, it seems she is becoming more self aware and doing things on her own. Just have fun and keep at it! :D

 

The only thing left is to have her vocal

[Otzee]

 

The only thing left is to have her vocal

 

Well that'll certainly come in time. :)

[Guest Anonymous]

Is this a sign of sentient?

 

After working on her for a week, it's better to assume it isn't than that it is. There are things such as intrusive thoughts. They're not you parroting, but are still random and unexpected - confusing this with your tulpa's sentience won't help you. Just be patient.

 

Also, tell your tulpa to stop jumping in pipes. She's not Mario.

[Pendekar_Borneo]

 

After working on her for a week, it's better to assume it isn't than that it is. There are things such as intrusive thoughts. They're not you parroting, but are still random and unexpected - confusing this with your tulpa's sentience won't help you. Just be patient.

 

Also, tell your tulpa to stop jumping in pipes. She's not Mario.

 

Aww man :(

[Twice Sparked]

Sup?

 

Eh, when was this last updated? A couple days ago? This totally isn't a necro, then.

 

Were those behaviors your tulpa's doing? Yasurewhynot.

 

If I may, let's forget about parroting and whatnot for a second. You're asking if you experienced your tulpa acting on her own, premising it by positing that you perceived her acting on her own. It's a tautology; if you observed her acting on her own, then you experienced her acting on her own.

 

Does this mean she's sentient? Hell if I know.

 

Try something out: Walk down the street one day and ask a stranger to prove their sentience to you. After they punch you in the face, they'll think about it and come to this crucial question: How the hell does one prove their sentience to another? I can think of an infinite amount of things you can do to gesture weakly in that direction, but there's no way for me to, as though we were measuring variables in a lab, prove to you that I am conscious (let alone sapient or self-conscious, which is a whole 'nother can of worms).

 

My point, then, is this: She'll decide when she's conscious. Hell, being able to decide in the first instance is already being there...

 

Actually, being able to decide is self-consciousness. Simply being able to perceive is already consciousness or sentience. But I won't belabor the point.

 

You, however, must keep doing what you're doing. Keep spending time with her, and keep, as it were, expecting her to do the unexpected. I know how you feel. We all do. But this isn't a hands-off journey; you'll get precisely what you expect out of it. Don't fall into the parrotnoia trap. If you concoct some criterion by which you decide whether or not she is sentient and she fails it, then she is not sentient. On the other hand, if she passes, then she is. But the criterion itself belongs to you, so she will be just as autonomous as you want her to be. Keep building beneficial habits by forcing often and reinforcing to yourself (by accident, willpower or suprasuggestion; take your pick) the limits of her abilities and the depth and reality of your desired relationship.