Season of the Tulpa

[Magical Realist]

All my beloved tulpas nest comfortably inside my head. But then so do I as well as the rest of my Universe. Real after all is just a state of mind. In this frightful Halloween season I like to welcome the roaming denizens of the collective unconscious into my hypervigilant mind. Shhh.. The paranormal really is just a whisper in the dark away..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRyfUZe5TM&t=169s

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[Syne]

Uh, you mean the voices in your head. 9_9

[C C]

All my beloved tulpas nest comfortably inside my head. But then so do I as well as the rest of my Universe. Real after all is just a state of mind [...]

When the imaginary entities did appear in the external environment (hallucinations) that was indeed the evidence that old-time philosophers needed that the manifested external world was a representation abiding in the head. But that in itself certainly does not eliminate a truly brain-independent or mindless external world that consequently exists invisibly in its native state (barring panpsychism). "Representation" entails something that it is a copy of (even if an unfaithful or inaccurate imitation).

OTOH, though, the representation itself does have objective features. One cannot control or alter it by will or desire alone (as with daydreams) -- it is regulated by its own rules. And other humans report that their "operating systems" generate the same environment (it may be a product of mind or neural tissue, but it is inter-subjective -- has global reach rather than being purely private and personal).

So even if there was not an ultimate or noumenal external world, our empirical or phenomenal version of one still adequately serves as such. Mach contended that the former was even superfluous. But all the multiple and rival ways of modelling it, to derive predictions, means that the "idea" of it has practical value -- the concept of an ultimate external world is not useless.

[Magical Realist]

I've been playing with the notion of persons being tulpa-like in their nature..Being a loose assemblage of one's physical body, expressions, mannerisms, speech/writing, and ascribed emotive/mental properties, persons sort of hover in between the realm of the objectively independent and the socially constructed, even being something we ourselves accustom ourselves to enacting. We seem sure we are having a direct experience of the person much as we would an apple or a chair, and yet it remains immaterial and largely inferred and projected as real and "behind" the perceived body. It even takes on a life of its own as a collective tulpa of many people's imaginings of it. A performed or played along characterization in an ongoing and implicit consensual agreement. This is the power of intersubjective minds, assuming the mind itself is a discrete and objectively real entity in itself. Maybe it isn't. Maybe mind is all one generative substrate and the phenomenally instantiating basis for all objectively real entities. Ghosts then as the residual tulpas or persons we were in life living and acting as if they really were us when we in fact have moved on as the subjective minds or souls we truly are.