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If you've ever experienced zoning out and suddenly 2 hours (arbitrary, could be any length of time) are gone in an instant and you've gone from Point A to B with no recollection of anything happening inbetween? Somehow during those 2 hours you managed to navigate a city, to talk or do any necessary actions, but you weren't there.
Think also of the sleep walker phenomena. They're not all there; some parts of the cognition are typically impaired. Yet they manage to walk about a house and sometimes open a fridge and do all sorts of things without that core being present.
Something else - read up on MPD. I think it's mentioned in Sorcery by J. Finley Hurley and some other books in the library maybe the Holographic Universe Theory book too. MPD is basically a case of multiple spirits switching places in and out of a body.
Look also at animals and young children for they have no core, no self.
Science has tried to demonstrate the presence of this self through the mirror test. That is there way of testing for sentience.
>Very few species have passed the MSR test. As of 2015, only great apes (including humans), a single Asiatic elephant, dolphins, orcas, and the Eurasian magpie have passed the MSR test. A wide range of species have been reported to fail the test, including several species of monkey, giant pandas, sea lions, and dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
It is unfortunately not a perfect test for sentience.
I am convinced that there are empty humans. I just am not sure how we'd discern their emptiness with 100% reliability. Even montalk mentions there are also spirited humans who are just very damaged or inhibited that appear like an NPC and yet are not.
I think maybe Walter J. Kilner's book on The Human Aura might yield clues on how to objectively and properly discern the presence of spirit in another. Other than that it might just be a feeling we get where we know someone is an empty meat wagon running purely on genetic + environmental programming without the presence of spirit.
It's hilarious to think this bird here could be the most sentient non-ape on the planet.