[MengerSponge]

You're describing humans that are frighteningly close to "philosophical zombies" https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/

Twitter is a pure pain box, but no one has the kindness of offering a gom jabbar.

[NoodleIncident]

Not really... philosophical zombies behave indistinguishably from "conscious" humans, we just don't believe them when they say they have internal experiences just like real people.

[gsich]

NPCs

[paulmd]

I once was a coder like you, then I took a carpal tunnel to the hand.

[MengerSponge]

Slide into their DMPCs