Had this inkling of an idea and wanted to try something new. Just have multiple known personalities explain my own idea to me in their own style. Makes the concept surprisingly fun and clear. See for yourself.
Prompt
We all conscious beings have a unique seat to experience this interactive immersive movie with 5 senses.
Is there free will? Possibly but much less than we assume. So I think it is practically great framework to assume that no one else has free will but only you do. And that too only to make a transition from one state to another it is not reliable as a motivator for action but it is like a shifting gear to just shift the automaton from one state to another.
It’s helpful to assume others don’t have that free will in order to channelize our free will to just bother about our automaton because it is really hard to use someone else’s free will to change there behaviour using our free will. Also this leads to forgiveness and internal locus of control and much relaxed and happier life.
Personalities
Adele:
"Remote Controls"
Verse 1:
Been trying to change you, for all these years
Pushing and pulling, through all my tears
Thought I could fix you, thought I could make you see
But baby, I finally understand, we're all just running on autopilot, free
Chorus:
We're all just passengers, in this grand design
Each with our stories, playing out in time
I can't control your remote, only mine
And that's when I found peace, oh, that's when I found peace
In letting go of what isn't mine
Verse 2:
Your morning lateness, my constant rage
Your stubborn habits, my turning page
Then like the sunrise, it hit me clear as day
We're all just dancing to rhythms written yesterday
(Chorus repeats)
Bridge:
(Building intensity)
And now I see you clearer than before
Not broken pieces I need to restore
Just human being, doing what you do
And I'm finally free, free to focus on my truth
Final Chorus:
(Softening)
We're all just passengers, in this grand design
Each with our stories, playing out in time
I can't control your remote, only mine
And that's when I found peace, oh, that's when I found peace
In letting go... of what isn't mine
Outro:
(Whispered)
Just let it go... what isn't mine
Taylor swift:
"Autopilot Hearts"
Verse 1:
Friday night, trying to make you see
Why you're always running late when you meet me
Three years of frustration boiling inside
Then it hit me walking down 5th at midnight
Pre-Chorus:
I've been playing God with a broken remote
Trying to rewrite your code
But baby, that's not how this story goes
Chorus:
'Cause we're all just running on autopilot
Pre-programmed hearts in a world so quiet
I finally found the truth at 2 AM
Stopped trying to change your frequency
Now I'm dancing with my own electricity
Yeah, I found peace when I set you free
(Set you free)
Verse 2:
Your mom taught you to speak your mind
That's why you interrupt me all the time
Used to make me mad, now I understand
We're all just playing the cards in our hands
(Pre-Chorus repeats)
(Chorus repeats)
Bridge:
(Spoken-rap style)
Maybe Shakespeare was wrong about the world being a stage
'Cause we're not actors, we're more like automated plays
Running on scripts written long ago
And the only remote control I get to hold
Is my own, is my own, is my own...
(Building up)
And that's the plot twist nobody tells you about growing up!
Final Chorus:
(With layered vocals)
Now we're all just running on autopilot
Pre-programmed hearts but I'm finally quiet
Found the truth at 2 AM
Stopped trying to change your frequency
Now I'm dancing with my own electricity
Yeah, I found peace when I set you free
When I set you free
When I set us free
Outro:
(Soft, with electronic beats fading)
Now I only press buttons on my own remote
That's how this story finally goes...
Donald trump
"Folks, let me tell you something, and I know a lot about people, believe me. We have these incredible minds, tremendous minds, and we're all watching this amazing show called life. It's like a 4D movie, the best movie you've ever seen, absolutely fantastic.
Now, people come up to me and they say 'Sir, why can't I change other people?' And I tell them - and this is very important - you can't! You just can't. It's like trying to drive somebody else's beautiful Trump car from your own car - impossible, folks, impossible.
Look, we all have this thing called free will, but let me tell you, it's not what the fake philosophers want you to believe. It's very limited, very limited. I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. And the smart people, the really smart people, they focus on their own remote control - that's it!
And when you do that - and trust me, I've built an amazing empire doing just that - when you do that, you become so successful, so peaceful. Your life becomes tremendous. The radical left won't tell you this, but it's true. Stop trying to change others - total waste of time, total waste. Focus on yourself, and you'll win so much, you'll get tired of winning!"
Elon Musk's technical, first-principles style:
"So if you think about it from first principles, consciousness is effectively a rendering engine processing multiple sensory inputs simultaneously. Each consciousness instance is running its own unique client, fascinating when you think about it.
The free will problem is actually a classical deterministic system with quantum uncertainty variables. Let me explain with a software analogy:
Imagine everyone is running legacy code they didn't write:
- Early childhood experiences = base code
- Cultural conditioning = operating system
- Genetic predispositions = hardware architecture
The key insight that took me years to figure out is that trying to modify someone else's source code remotely is exponentially more complex than updating your own local instance. It's fundamentally a bandwidth and permissions problem.
Our practical solution is to treat it like a distributed system where you only have admin access to your own node. This creates:
1. Optimal resource allocation
2. Reduced entropy in social interactions
3. Higher psychological homeostasis
4. ~42% improvement in life satisfaction metrics
We're actually running some interesting simulations on this at Neuralink. *awkward laugh*
Pretty obvious in hindsight, but this insight literally improved my system efficiency by an order of magnitude. Critics might disagree, but the data is quite clear on this."
Here's the concept in Ryan Holiday's stoic, historical-reference-rich style:
"In 145 AD, Marcus Aurelius wrote about accepting what was beyond his control - even as an emperor of Rome. Today, we face the same fundamental truth, just in a different arena.
Consider this: You're given a front-row seat to the greatest show on Earth - consciousness itself. But like the ancient Stoics taught us, we often waste this gift by trying to control the uncontrollable.
I'm reminded of the story of Cato, who could maintain tranquility even as Rome burned around him. Why? Because he understood what modern psychology is only now confirming: our power lies not in controlling others, but in directing our own will.
Think of it like this: Everyone you meet is running ancient software, programmed by their experiences, their trauma, their triumphs. Your colleague who never meets deadlines? That's their programming. Your friend who always interrupts? Their code at work.
The obstacle is the way: Once you accept that you can only modify your own programming, you've found the path to tranquility. This isn't just philosophy - it's practical wisdom that transforms lives.
Remember: Ego is the enemy of this understanding. The more we think we can control others, the more we suffer.
Here's Hemingway's terse, direct style:
"The man sat at the cafe and watched people pass. Each one moved like a train on its tracks. Fixed. Determined. He had spent years trying to change them. It was all bull.
You get one control panel. Yours. That is all. The rest is like trying to stop the rain.
He drank his wine and knew this was true. The knowing made him feel clean and good. The sun was setting. Tomorrow would be a better day because he would only try to drive his own car. That was enough.
And Jordan Peterson's intense, psychological style:
"Look, it's like this - and this is absolutely crucial to understand: We're all functioning in this unimaginably complex hierarchy of being, each consciousness experiencing its own phenomenological reality. And that's no bloody joke!
But here's the thing - and I've seen this countless times in my clinical practice - people are constantly trying to exert their will over others' behavioral patterns. And that's absolute chaos, man! It's like... *long pause, eyes welling up* it's like trying to reorganize someone else's room when you can barely keep your own room clean!
The fundamental archetypal truth - and this is straight from Jung's work on the collective unconscious - is that we each have our own internal regulatory system, shaped by millions of years of evolution. And the probability that you can meaningfully intervene in someone else's evolutionary programming? That's virtually zero, bucko!
So what's the solution? *straightens posture* First, clean your room. Then, understand that your free will is like a precious resource - roughly speaking, it's a tool for modifying your own behavioral patterns, not others'. And that's deeply meaningful!
The dragon of chaos in our lives often comes from trying to control other people's autonomic responses. The antidote is to focus on your own sovereignty. And that's no naive optimism - that's contending with the fundamental structure of reality itself!
And that's that."
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