How does it work, what’s the benefit and why can’t we really recall much if anything during an autopilot episode?
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You may need to be more specific with your scenario. Technically everything you do is autopilot. The default acceptance state for anything should be the null state. The problem is that most people speak about human behaviour under the assumption that there’s someone at the wheel so to speak. The problem is that this isn’t the null position on the matter and so it should require sufficient empirical evidence before assuming that position.
In terms of evidence to suggest that people have any autonomy over their functions is exactly zero. So then by current scientific evidence then everything you do is autopilot because you ultimately don’t control what you do and what you do is merely the inevitable resolution of the laws of physics as they pertain to the state of the biochemistry in your brain coupled with the causal events happening around you.
Essentially we are all just conscious witnesses to a chain of causality that began with the Big Bang. You can include random events in that as well and that still doesn’t give anyone agency.
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