Robert Sapolsky (neuroscientist, writer, and professor of biological sciences, neurology, and neurosurgery at Stanford University in the USA) -"We are the sum of what we cannot control."
You are the ghost resulting from the choices and nature of your ancestors. There is no free will, as Sapolsky himself says. No one is "purely" real, and for me, free will is never related to being "alive"; it's more about "rebellious" freedom and nature itself, because that's the basis of your art. Of the joys you acquire and create in life, but there, it's still not entirely your "individuality." It's not entirely nature that defines you (only by itself, in this case. Many other scientists who criticize Sapolsky's ideas say that free will is something far beyond metaphysics, etc. And not just the biological part) because still, there is the part where you create "consciousness" and self-knowledge from what your ancestors passed on through "genes." There is the emptiness that only your universe knew and interpreted, so finally, with self-knowledge, it's up to you to choose to shape certain things (morally, spiritually, or something like that, your honor and dignity, and many other things) or embrace what you see as your "person," and from there, be a "monster" or monster.
You are the unknown itself—the universes before yours created their realities (and ideas of reality) based on the known, the only masterpiece that existed for them and that they could appreciate. Reality is not unique. Your individuality is not "pure." This idea of "universes" originating from their own flesh, of sharing their own arts, is what connects this so-called "cannibal art" I speak of to the Universe, to Existence, and this is equivalent to any kind of god who always uses a part of himself to create things, or things that this "being" knew. This is even represented by the character that appears in my paintings, that great bird woman who appears to be a monster. I call her "Avi-mori."
The metaphysical would still not be enough because it is obstructed by this paradox of reality. It simply isn't. To look at nature, to look at the universe, is to look back at yourself—the masterpiece of emptiness. There's no point in fighting your own nature. Against its own parasitism. Nor do they fight like the "Twins" (the two figures in my painting above) fight in a ridiculous way.

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