User blog comment:GRUNGLE MACHINE/The Creation of a Tulpa/@comment-25941663-20151229012314

"A physical copy of your subconscious". I don't think that's possible (at least not for a long, long time). We cannot even create a copy of our conscious, let alone something we know much less of. Also, I don't think this "physical copy" would be anything like the creepypasta one. You have to keep in mind that what goes on in our brains isn't clear thoughts. Everything is mangled together. We never have clear thoughts. Our subconscious is (probably) much worse. So, even if we were to make a copy, that copy wouldn't be physical at all. It would probably be something very abstract and non-physical.

But I like the idea of an imaginary friend of sorts. Interesting, although -again- we don't have clear thoughts. So this "friend" should have intelligence on its own to translate the mangled nonsense into something that we can understand.

By the way, regarding this:

"You can't cause mental illness, that just occurs through genetics and such."

I'm not sure if this is the case. Mental illnesses are biological diseases, so just like any other illness, you can cause them too.

It's getting pretty late, I shouldn't be typing all this. My brain is half-asleep, I just hope what I just wrote made some form of sense.