Initial reaction to the title before reading the article: yes, and it's called Twitch.
I think this Tulpa thing is a really fascinating idea but not for treating loneliness unless people are truly locked in.
Now that we have the internet there are a lot of other ways to connect to people that I think are better.
I actually think it may be okay to talk to yourself as a tool for figuring things out. But I don't think that is a good way to relieve loneliness.
But as an example of the power of meditation, it seems interesting. Because normally these types of hallucinations only happen close to a dream state or while asleep. So if people can trigger them while awake that is pretty powerful.
I suspect it might involve entering a bit of a meditative state quickly though.
That's one of the interesting things about brain computer interfaces. Someday we may be able to directly tap in to these simulation capabilities in terms of more conscious control and also recording them.
Or maybe we will someday be able to do a sort of waking lucid dream with a computer display. So for example I could be looking at my code or whatever and visualizing a diagram that would be recorded by the computer.
I think this Tulpa thing is a really fascinating idea but not for treating loneliness unless people are truly locked in.
Now that we have the internet there are a lot of other ways to connect to people that I think are better.
I actually think it may be okay to talk to yourself as a tool for figuring things out. But I don't think that is a good way to relieve loneliness.
But as an example of the power of meditation, it seems interesting. Because normally these types of hallucinations only happen close to a dream state or while asleep. So if people can trigger them while awake that is pretty powerful.
I suspect it might involve entering a bit of a meditative state quickly though.
That's one of the interesting things about brain computer interfaces. Someday we may be able to directly tap in to these simulation capabilities in terms of more conscious control and also recording them.
Or maybe we will someday be able to do a sort of waking lucid dream with a computer display. So for example I could be looking at my code or whatever and visualizing a diagram that would be recorded by the computer.