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Comment author: chairbender 04 January 2014 05:29:42AM 1 point [-]

What experimental test could you perform to determine that you have successfully learned "parallel tulpa processing"?

Comment author: Ishaan 04 January 2014 08:01:13AM *  0 points [-]

Divided attention task

Split brain patients can do stuff like this better than neurotypicals under certain conditions. I have not heard of anyone successfully doing this with tulpas or any other psychodynamic technique.

Comment author: klkblake 04 January 2014 02:09:22PM 0 points [-]

Being able to reliably succeed on this task is one of the tests I've been using. Mostly, though, it's just a matter of trying to get to the point where we can both be focusing intently on something.

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