The fact is that the majority of our thoughts and actions are on autopilot. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. Our habits, routines, impulses, and reactions carry us through our lives so we don’t have to stop and think about it every time we wipe our ass or start a car.
The problem is when we’re on autopilot for so long that we forget we’re on autopilot. Because when we’re not even aware of our own habits, routines, impulses, and reactions, then we no longer control them they control us.
A person with self awareness is able to exercise a little meta-cognition and say, “Hmm… every time my sister calls me and asks for money, I end up drinking a lot of vodkas. That might not be a coincidence,” a person without self awareness just hits the bottle and doesnt look back.
Self awareness has two parts. It’s the ability to notice our own habits, routines, impulses, and reactions, and to consciously control them. For a person without self awareness, they just hit the bottle and don’t look back.
“It’s like we’re stuck in a time loop ourselves, watching main character Colt slay his way through semi-familiar areas in new ways.
Well, there’s a part of Colt’s “story” that is really interesting. Apparently Colt was once the head of security for more than a dozen Visionaries. But something bad allegedly happened to him and he lost his memory, thus losing his self-awareness. The FBI would like to get in contact with him and see what they can do to help him.
The FBI has been contacted by the Visionaries to help the team out, but they have not been able to help Colt. Apparently Colt has a long history of killing innocent people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It seems that the FBI’s only contact with him has been to tell him to take out the Visionaries, but that doesn’t seem to have been helpful.
This is a problem because we cannot always know exactly what is going on in our own lives. If we have the ability to tap into our own memories, it could be possible for us to access what happened to us in the future. This is why the fbi is sending Colt to see how they can help him. And here’s the problem, they are not going to be able to help him for a few reasons.
The fbis are going to ask Colt whether there is any way for him to access his memories in the past, even if they have been given instructions to erase them. Also, Colt has no way of knowing whether that was helpful or not. There is no way for him to know he is looking at his own past and that it has any bearing on his current situation.
Colt is a bit of an anomaly because as far as he knows he is a complete and utter nobody. He has no idea that he even exists or that he really is an individual with a name. Colt is very much a product of the fbi and their ‘future of the future’ philosophy.
