The production of the brain and then the soul has some randomness in the process, so biology can only describe a part of the soul but never all of it. The same exact DNA can lead to the creation of many different souls because each brain is produced in time and interacts with different stimuli as it grows.
It's not mental illness because that's when it's compared to a healthy state of the individual. Imagine comparing a healthy you versus a you with a flu.
A healthier version of these guys does not exist to compare to. A healthier version of Mishima would be a Karate and sports dude and not a ritual death theatre dude. They've hit the end of the train line and then their world started spinning.
Listen. Out of every conscious little freakshow crawling around this spinning rock—billions of humans, trillions of squirrels probably having better days, maybe some squid gods we haven’t met yet why the fuck am I this one? Not “why is there consciousness,” not “am I the same dude who ate pizza...
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