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People love to call everyone else NPCs to feel superior (particularly the "red pilled"), but I reckon that a small number of people genuinely have the traits associated with NPCs.

They're equal-but-opposite to people with aspergers, both do not have an intellectual disability despite their mental disorder.
Aspies struggle to fit into society, are a font of ideas even for things they aren't passionate for, and frequently acquire new skills and knowledge just by thinking. Since a huge amount of what influences their behaviour isn't observable input, they are unpredictable.
NPCs easily fit in society, have an absence of ideas even for things they are passionate about, and only know what they are taught. This makes them predictable since there isn't much unobservable (i.e. in the brain) input that influences behaviour, and also able to be programmed by authority figures, both leading to the "NPC" description.

Knowing nothing but what you're taught is a fairly common trait, but less common is passion without inspiration.
The way the two relate is this:

Normal people: Inspiration tied to passion
Aspies: Inspiration regardless of passion
NPCs: No inspiration regardless of passion

I can only think of one person I've gotten to know properly who matches my description of an NPC, since in the years I've known them I've twice seen them develop an interest in a creative field without showing a shred of inspiration.

>> No.10085123

how many npc threads we need at the same time?

>> No.10085127

>>10085123
Three.
We have four, but that's fine.

>> No.10085135

>>10085120
Completely agree with you.
We should not take consciousness for granted.

>> No.10085156

I just hope the NPC meme is a good way to use peer pressure to make people reflect on their own predictability, which goes hand in hand with manipulability. “I don’t blindly follow trends. I know, because I follow the NPC trend.” It’s peer pressure turned against itself.

>> No.10085239

>>10085120
There are a lot that you aren't seeing. If you walk by a Starbucks and look through the window, about half of the people inside are most likely NPC's, especially those who spend go to Starbucks multiple times per day. My uni is full of them. There's a reason people are referred to as "basic". They just repeat things rather than creating ideas and opinions of their own, basically just taking the path of least resistance.

>> No.10085253

NPC is the lack of the divine spark.

>> No.10085262

>>10085120
npc needs to be banned from sci; it’s just a vidya version of a philosophical concept (philosophical zombie) and philosofags need to go back to >>>/his/

>> No.10085269

>>10085262

its anthropology and is sci,

npc is kinda like what the hipster thinks they are avoiding, or any counter culture movement

>> No.10085278

>>10085239
The assumption that the people you see around you doing normal, day-to-day things are sheeple for doing those things is surprisingly common.
If they can't go to Starbucks, then what should they be doing? Are they supposed to be hovering in the air, rapidly rotating as they consume Earth's angular momentum for fuel?
Doing something perfectly normal is a regular occurrence in the lives of both the insightful and the dullards. To tell which is which, you'd have to know what they're thinking as they do those things, and you can't do that.

>> No.10085287

>>10085156
it's just another fucking meme, last week it was the zoomer shit, it never ends

>> No.10085292

>>10085269
>anthropology
ugh so retarded. if you somehow think the meme has morphed into what the reddit fags turned it into — something about people being conformists — then the meme is just being misused because it really is about philosophical zombies (and that doesn’t belong on /sci/)

but even if you claim it’s anthropology about some conformist-type people, and that deserves to be on /sci/, because “it’s anthropology”, then by the same logic you could say rapper threads and trump threads and pony threads are anthropology so let’s make /sci/ threads about them. no, that’s not anthropology and it doesn’t deserve to be on /sci/

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>>10085120
STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
STOP FUCKING POSTING ABOUT THIS SHIT. ITS FUCKING AUGURY NOT SCIENCE. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.10085294

>>10085278
More or less yeah. Combine an inability to read minds with the inability to know what an individual is doing 24/7 beyond what you see, and the classic strawman through overgeneralization and the only thing you have left is another shit wojack meme that's dead on arrival

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>>10085120
You all needed, at some crucial stage in your development, to have your asses beat, but a father figure failed you and bullies must have taken uncharacteristic pity.

>>10085262
P-Zombies should best be left to /lit/ or /his/ given the /sci/ inability to work out human behavior. It's not your fault.

>> No.10085315

>>10085292

you don't deserve to be in this thread

>> No.10085330

>>10085123
As many as it takes to get you NPC vermin into the ovens.

>> No.10085346

>>10085330
hey look /sci/bros, there's a /pol/ version of an npc shiller, they're a slighly evolved form of the /v/ breed of npc shills, similar to the large reddit breed. the /pol/ breed has an unusual brain parasite that has an unpredictable prognosis but usually manifests as a set of psychological syndromes

>> No.10085357

>>10085346
>/sci/bros
kys

>> No.10085388

I tough the NPC is more of blinded by information logic circles and optimization to wrong routine kind of person. NPC is just thinking it's information are complete, but can be "inspired" by those information which are not even description of subject.

>> No.10085460

>>10085156
>Complains about other’s predictability
>Spams NPC memes
What did he mean by this?

>> No.10085583

>>10085278
I think you might be misinterpreting my post. Not everyone who goes to Starbucks is an NPC, hell I go there every now and then. What I'm getting at is that it's a place with a higher concentration of NPC's, not that everyone who goes there is an NPC.

>> No.10085588

>>10085120
There's no mystery to this. Think of dogs. Dogs are NPCs, not because they have some kind of 'disorder', but because their brains don't have enough connections and complexity to 'generate' conciousness. In a similar fashion, NPCs are simply people with low IQ's. Anything beneath 160, in particular.

>> No.10085625

>>10085588
hey fuck off, doggies and kitties are conscious

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>>10085625
>My dog is like so smart and totally loves me, I'm such a dog person XD

No, I have not heard of the high elves.

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>>10085156
>I just hope the NPC meme is a good way to use peer pressure to make people reflect on their own predictability, which goes hand in hand with manipulability. “I don’t blindly follow trends. I know, because I follow the NPC trend.” It’s peer pressure turned against itself.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

>> No.10085654

>>10085156
>Omg anon you are such an NPC, I'm going to go fuck Chad instead, he is so cool with his inner monologue.

>> No.10085672

>>10085588
>arbitrary IQ limit
>believing in the IQ jew
That's nice, retard

>> No.10085689

>>10085672
IQ has it flaws but if you unironically believe the jews are evil then I know you are an NPC.

>> No.10085698

>>10085120
I can't find it but some woman talked about her experience as basicly a former NPC(obviously she didn't use that term as it wasn't a meme yet), she had no internal monologue for most of her life and intentionally taught herself to do it over a year and now she cannot imagine how she could ever not have had that. She described most of her former life as simply "reacting to stimuli".

>> No.10085699

>>10085689
>If you disagree with me you are an NPC

>> No.10085714

The NPC meme is correct in the sense that the people who fall into the NPC category are ignoring pattern recognition and part of group think.
It seems similar to that chestnut about the crazy person never realizing they're crazy even as they fling their own feces at the wall.

A for group think it is as follows,
>I'm not crazy I'm with everyone else. So you must be the crazy one.

I think this applies to both ends of the political spectrum.

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>>10085714
>t. npc

t. npc

>> No.10085718

The best thing about NPCs is that if someone disagrees with you, you can disregard their humanity. Fuckin tubular dude

>> No.10085730

>>10085120
Nothing you said is coherent or useful scientifically, the concept of a mental disorder is already loosely definable and subject to many different biosocial interpretations. You should seriously consider if you aren't a brainlet before ever making a thread on a complex, abstract concept such as the idea of "less" soulful people or whatever you sincerely think NPC is meant to be about.
>>10085654
See this is the worst aspect of the meme, inner monologue doesn't mean what you think it does and likely has no correlation at all with creativity or iq. In high iq autistics it has a negative correlation, the exact type of people who are least likely to be easily manipulated by large groups or the overculture
>>10085698
She still is just reacting to stimuli

>> No.10085779

Philosophically speaking everyone is technically an NPC. It has less to do with certain intellectual or emotional behavior traits and more to do with associated distance outside one's self.

You yourself are not an NPC because you consciously are aware of your existence. Everyone else however falls into a gradient of participation within your active consciousness. With the people who you don't and will never see in other countries being complete non-participants in your consciousness and thus NPCs if not worse non-existent.

>> No.10085797

>>10085120
it's uncanny how much I relate to the guy on the left. Then again it's probably some astrology tier generalization meme tricking me into believing any of this has some predictive capability

>> No.10085822

> Read Ayn Rand

lmao

>> No.10086781

>>10085779
>Philosophically

>> No.10086786

>>10085822
>Reed ayn rand
>red ayn rand
>lmao

This post is fundamentally ambiguous

>> No.10086809

Damn, the way you describe aspies makes me really think I'm on the spectrum.

>> No.10087518

>>10085779
tl;dr Everyone but themselves are an NPC

>> No.10087628

>>10085689
WTF NPC, wrong thread

>> No.10087737

>>10085120
>read holes in 6th grade, liked it
that's fucking hilarious