This is easier said than done. When you think something happened, it does.
When you think something happened to you, you are essentially telling yourself something happened to you, and that something happened has a particular meaning for you. Like a person who thinks they were hit by a car at work thinks something bad happened to them, or a person who thinks something happened to their spouse thinks something bad happened to them. We have all had something happen to us.
In this case, we think that something bad has happened to the Blackreef party island, and we think that that something bad happened to Colt Vahn. In reality, neither of us even know what happened, and we will probably never know.
Just like the people you think you know, we have a certain amount of truth that we don’t. We can’t control events, and if we don’t know what actually happened then we have to assume we were in the scene at the time and that is what happened. But we can control what we do or don’t do.
No, Colt Vahn doesn’t have to be the cause of the island’s sudden change in appearance. He’s just someone who’s been in the scene at the time, but not the cause. If it was the island’s fault, then it would be our fault too, and we wouldn’t be able to stop it. But it isn’t the island’s fault. We can stop it.
But if we assume we werent in the scene at the time and our actions were not the cause of the sudden change in scenery then our actions/inactions are part of the cause. If we didnt do anything to cause the change then we shouldnt have been in the scene at all. If we did something to cause the change then we shouldnt have been in the scene at all.
It’s like our mind is like a radio. If something we’re hearing isnt real, then we shouldnt be listening to that at all. If we werent listening to that at all then we shouldnt be listening to that. If we werent listening to that then we shouldnt be listening to that.
It just may not be as simple as that.
That’s how the science of consciousness works. It’s about the brain creating a signal that is received by our brain. Then, our brain is like a radio, and we just listen to it. But if we listen to something that is not real, then we may miss a signal, or we may not hear the signal at all. That’s why we should be listening to something that we believe is real.
It’s like this “signal” is in the brain, and we have no idea what that signal is. And if we don’t believe it, and only believe what our brain tells us, then we miss that signal. If you don’t believe it’s real, then you might miss it, and end up having to make a conscious decision about what you should do, or even if you should do it at all.