I'm interested in making a "chat with yourself" program I'm calling Soliloquy [1].
The idea is to let you explore different sides of an argument, or different sides of your psyche. For example, you might choose the three characters, "optimist", "pessimist" and "judge" to hold a group conversation that looks like a mobile phone chat, as a way to work through a difficult challenge in life that needs reflection and long-form thought.
The reason I'm building this is I find that I often don't complete a thought before negating myself--I cut short embarrassing or superficially trivial feelings, but I believe they sometimes deserve more stage time. Sometimes it's exploring thoughts that relate to uncomfortable feelings that yield the highest return on time spent.
Soliloquy is being built with neutralinojs, so it will work on any desktop OS (Mac/Linux/Window). It is "local only"--no network connection, so you can rest assured your private conversations are your own. I intend to publish it with MIT license but haven't got around to that yet :)
I would be interested in something where I'm given a topic and position to argue for, and I argue against another person who has the opposite side, and then other people vote on who did it best. Obviously a lot of details there to work out to avoid sybil attacks but I think that would be stimulating.
I think you're really on to something there. It's quite along the lines of something I've been practicing the last 18 months or so, particularly not stopping short when uncomfortable feelings come up as I examine an issue or feeling and try gain a proper perspective. It's something I consider part of my own mindfulness techniques, which have really been powerful and profound mental exercises for me. I think something like Soliloquy could really not only help people with the intended goal of the project but even to just expose more people to the very idea of truly exploring things from different vantage points.
How cool, I’ve been wanting to try just such a conversation between two of my characters. I might give this a try!
That conversation will relate to my own project, in which I’ve lost the fun aspect of working on it. There’s something important about doing a thing purely for fun.
The idea is to let you explore different sides of an argument, or different sides of your psyche. For example, you might choose the three characters, "optimist", "pessimist" and "judge" to hold a group conversation that looks like a mobile phone chat, as a way to work through a difficult challenge in life that needs reflection and long-form thought.
The reason I'm building this is I find that I often don't complete a thought before negating myself--I cut short embarrassing or superficially trivial feelings, but I believe they sometimes deserve more stage time. Sometimes it's exploring thoughts that relate to uncomfortable feelings that yield the highest return on time spent.
Soliloquy is being built with neutralinojs, so it will work on any desktop OS (Mac/Linux/Window). It is "local only"--no network connection, so you can rest assured your private conversations are your own. I intend to publish it with MIT license but haven't got around to that yet :)
[1] https://github.com/canadaduane/soliloquy