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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @03:31PM (#24496583)
> Apparently some people go as far as replacing themselves with a tulpa they've created (they call this ego-suicide).

Sure, but I wonder how useful that is. After all, you're replacing one ego with another. Before, the controller was this group of processes running on this slice of the CPU, now it's a different (but similar) group of processes running on a somewhat shifted slice of the CPU.

Maybe if the new processes are better in some ways then it would be worth it? Less anxious, more confident, something like that.

Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by krageon on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:56AM (#24505389)
There's no "worth it" outside of not existing. The "person" that was there before is not there now, otherwise it would be suicide.