>>212473949>>212473761I only watched some of the original but really the writing in the world building has odd choices with incoherent/odd implications. On the other hand, people love it so who am I to complain?
Namely, the emotion sprites seem to be real people in contrast with Riley. They have thoughts and personality like we would normally think. They have defined characteristics but agency. There's no emotion sprites running them, like turtles all the way down.
Like sure, we are meat puppets being piloted by the brain to a degree, but the brain is still synonymous with Us. In Inside Out, the emotions in the brain have their own independent souls and actually seem to be the real people.