Not just that, but Jadzia was an actual character who had a personality and contributed to the show. Same for Chekhov, or Uhura, or dozens of others who were fully realized characters first and foremost.

Adira was just there, and nothing else. It felt like the entire character was just there to tick a diversity box, and nothing else.

We agree entirely. It kinda felt like the writers on Disco eventually started treating main engineering like an skee-ball machine. It’s where they put the tokens.

Especially with the absolutely amazing way DS9 handled the Curzon/Jadzia thing.

The way DS9 did the “of course they’re here and it’s no big deal because it’s the enlightened utopian future” inclusion with a character who was effectively trans was in the finest tradition of Trek, dating back to the first pilot of TOS. And you can tell there’s a “but” coming up because of the otherwise well-deserved praise that we’re heaping on here.

But “Facets.”

The episode that was based on the Sybil TV movie. The episode that made joined Trill explicitly plural. And they made a beeline for the long hackneyed “evil alter” trope that the plural community has been unfairly saddled with since 1886. As well as the “slutty alter” trope, but it was already pretty well established by that point that Curzon was a horndog.

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We’re called a system.

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The possessive form of “thou” is “thy.”

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Yes. It’s called headspace. It’s a collaborative effort.

We do not have DID, but we are plural. Some of us are female, some male, some nonbinary.

Each of us identifies as our own respective gender. But what gender is a community? We submit that even groups consisting of a single gender are not considered to have a group gender. A sorority’s membership may be entirely comprised of women, but is the sorority itself considered female?

We have seen this meme many times, but this is our first time noticing the “plural inside” sticker.

Of course we own a crusty old sticker-emblazoned thinkpad that we keep running out of spite.

The gravel stabilizes the tar somewhat. But yes. And gravel washes off the roof too. And then the roof leaks the next time you get rain. They’re typically initially installed with hot asphalt and then patched with tar until the homeowner gives up and buys shingles. There’s a good reason you don’t see gravel roofs very much.

We’re plural. Our lived experience runs contrary to your opinion.

We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age.

That’s the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.

Here’s the relevant section of the DSM:

https://archive.org/details/diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-of-mental-disorders-dsm-5-pdfdrive.com/page/291/mode/2up

All dissociative disorders (quite possibly all disorders, we haven’t read the whole DSM) require the presence of clinically significant distress or impairment in order to be considered a disorder.

There is no specific entry for nondisordered plurality for the same reason that there is no entry for individuals who do not experience mental disorder: The DSM catalogues mental disorders, not the entirety of the human experience. It’s beyond the scope of the document.

Here’s a good introductory primer to plurality:

https://morethanone.info/

They use tar.

A tulpa is a type of supplemental consciousness capable of independent thought and with its own sense of self. It is created, intentionally or otherwise, by an existing consciousness within the same brain it comes to inhabit.

Yes, we are acutely aware that it sounds like preposterous pseudoscientific bullshit. We’re just describing the concept, not expecting you to put any stock in it. We know what community we’re commenting in.

The LLM in this example is not a tulpa. It only (poorly) mimics the appearance of independent thought and a sense of self, and runs on an external device.

They’re misidentifying that LLM as a tulpa.

We’re aware that some people use LLM output as a basis for the creation of tulpas, but this doesn’t seem to be the case here. This seems to be a person attributing independent intelligence to an LLM external to herself, not recounting her experience with an additional consciousness within her own brain.

Whether or not you consider tulpas or other forms of plurality to be genuine phenomena, this conflates two different concepts which are tangentially related at most.