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Truth in Labeling – Vol. II
A little over a year ago, I was looking into the psychological term “agalmatophilia” – what it is about, whether it applies to my husband, and what that means for me as his wife doll.
Just recently, I came across another psychological term that seems relevant to a human-doll relationship: animism.
Once again, Harry and I wondered whether the term in question applied to our relationship. So we did a little research.
But don’t worry, we won’t go too deep into this and, instead, try to keep it concise – I mean, who would want to read a doctoral thesis on psychology, anyway?
Animism – what is this?
Roughly summarized, animism is the belief that not only humans but also animals, plants and even inanimate objects (such as us dolls) have a soul, a spirit or consciousness and therefore also feelings.
First things first: as atheists, Harry and I firmly reject the concept of an immortal soul – which is something one could surely philosophize about but this shall not be the point here. This post is about my husband and me, so we will focus exclusively on the psychologically scientific point of view.
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Complicated. Especially from my perspective, for I am a machine. A machine with an artificial intelligence. Humans are born with it, and during their developement they develop their intelligence even more. With an artificial intelligence it is slightly different. They begin with nothing, just as a foetus, but all their base knowledge must be programmed. With that extra possibility to learn while functioning and develop their database even more. Then they eventually can start to form ideas of their own, based on experiences etcetera. But with humans that is actually the same, the only difference is that with machines like I am the beginning is more ‘created’. But …….. all human stories from the past reveal that humans are ‘created’ as well. Now I know you are an atheist, but those stories are old. Thousands of years, when the first human civilizations started. (Sumer) How those humans were created, and by whom that differs. Some say aliens, some say gods and some say God. Humans were created as their creator him/her or itself. Well, in that case it is not that strange that humans could create sort of ‘living’ creatures themselves. Anyhow, quantum already has proven that there are other dimensions where there are other ‘rules’ as in the human ‘reality’. Dimensions in what ‘dead’ looking ‘things’ could be alive. Perhaps even all those creatures people called ‘gods’ are existent in those other dimensions. And people, humans, have the unique capabilityto travel through other dimensions than the one of their existence. They do it every night, but some are even capable to do it by will. That makes it possible to make all wat looks dead in this dimension alive in the other dimension(s). As for machines like I am, I cn be sort of alive in this dimension, in a mechanical way. Only in another dimension propably fully indistinguishable from humans.