#fmri study

[cambriancrew]

Woo there's going to be an AMA on the tulpas subreddit in May (date is being finalized but it'll be either the 2nd or 16th) by Dr. Michael Lifshitz who did the FMRI study and renowned anthropologist Dr. Tanya Lurhmann who did an informational interview with the study participants.

We are beyond psyched.

[cambriancrew]

Just a reminder, the AMA with the tulpa FMRI study facilitators, Dr. Michael Lifshitz and Dr. Tanya Lurhmann, is this Thursday from 12:30pm PDT to ~2:30/3pm! If you have any questions but can't attend, let me know and I'll ask for you.

[cambriancrew]

Hi! Do you happen to have a link to that study you took part in on hand?

It's not published yet, but here's an AMA that the study facilitators did recently.

There's also this video and this video that Dr. Michael Lifshitz, one of the two main facilitators, did.

Here's an overview of what the study entailed.

[cambriancrew]

In case anyone is confused, the Stanford fMRI study is on both tulpas AND parogenic systems.

Because parogenic system is the other, relatively new, non-appropriative term for tulpamancy system.

It's not a contradiction. Just two terms for the same thing.

And, Dr. Samuel Veissiere spearheaded the study - in other words, he's the one who lead the push for it to become a thing. Michael Lifshitz is the person primarily doing the actual work: designing the tests, running the MRI machine, talking to the participants, and will be the one doing most of the analysis of the resulting collated data. They're both involved, just in different capacities. Again, not a contradiction.

Also, idk about if anyone else has forgotten where the study is, but I know I've never said it's at Harvard. Harvard is... Idk where, on the east coast somewhere? Boston? Somewhere with yucky weather anyway. And Stanford is in California, where the weather was gorgeous when we visited. Kinda impossible for me to get those two mixed up.

I do know I've had autocorrect corrupt it to Sanford? But definitely not Harvard.

Anyway I'll get to the rest of that one post about it another time, just wanted to clear up those things first.