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>Otherwise how could you possibly accept the assertion that they don’t have self awareness?
studies and analysis of their behaviour
>Sounds like the process of imagining how that other feels
do you have control over your empathy? can you feel the cogs turning in your head everytime you feel it or does it come naturally to you? being hungry is different from understanding what your body needs, and what your body needs may be something you don't even want to eat at all.
both things can coexist tho, i never said non npcs are all unfeeling psychopaths, i just don't like the glorification of empathy as this ultimate human virtue when it's an instinct like any other, which many animals have.
>If NPCs exist what function would them having empathy serve?
already answered >the evolutionary reason for this is to incentivize helping others in your tribe
>should consider a more active inner world as being likely indicative of personhood
the fact that you attribute instincts to a "more active inner world" is quite telling.
npcs having simple inbuilt feelings, on a massive escale, is easier than manually "coding" every interaction to appear as if they do
