I wrote everything I could come up with about art: https://kbrecordzz.com/2026/07/the-path-to-art/
Do you all also get "confirm login by email code" every time you log in to Neocities, since yesterday? Or is it just me?
Your ego, what you usually see as yourself, is really just a function running on top of yourself, for the purpose of survival for the body you happen to be inside. Your ego is just another person, not the true you, and it’s programmed to care about itself, treat itself as important and overtake your experience as soon as it can and create the story of you by categorizing, connecting and reinterpreting.
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juntogawa
2 weeks ago
The real you just experiences the world neutrally. Your ego categorizes, connects and reinterprets. Too bad most people only ever experience the judgemental themselves - the ego function - because it takes effort to realize how all this works in the brain.
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juntogawa
2 weeks ago
If you think about it, your opinions and ideas and emotions are things happening to you, just like sunlight reaching your eyes or other people talking to you are things happening to you. The feeling of being a person also comes to you from somewhere else, from some other part of the brain where you are not (you’re probably not inside the brain at all).
juntogawa
2 weeks ago
You’d think that underneath the ego function with all its negative and positive emotions, there would be a neutral pure experience. But this pure experience seem to be more good than neutral. Which makes me believe there’s meaning to existance outside of survival (survival is what the ego’s in charge of). Why would just existing feel good instead of neutral otherwise?
juntogawa
1 week ago
When you do different things different thoughts, ideas, goals, memories come to you. So your ego - your usual notion of you with your personality, name, experiences, goals, etc - isn't a single person. When you do different things, you are different guys. There is no thing or collection of things that could define what _you_ are, except the illusion your ego function gives you.
juntogawa
1 week ago
What you normally call "I" is this ego function, and this function can be turned off and you're still obviously there, just without the emotion of being a clear personality. So it's not that you don't exist or that you aren't a single thing, it's just that the common notion of "I" isn't what you really are. You are something much simpler than your personality and ego.
juntogawa
1 week ago
Being you (ego-wise) feels very different from time to time. The ego connects all these differently feeling events to a story to keep track of what you've done and what you should be doing next. You may notice this if you get confused by doing too many things in a day, like traveling very far, that you may feel confused about who you are because it's too many events to make a cohesive story of. At least I do...
Design is about making reasonable choices, art is about making unreasonable choices.
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Personally no? I stay logged in. Maybe you could toggle something to say you want to stay logged in? I don't remember, it's been a while since I've actually been logged out.