This goes beyond mere physical factors like missing portions of the brain, defective genetics, or a poor upbringing, because the latter are just defects in the hardware and programming of the biological machine, whereas the problem here involves the consciousness operating the machine. The missing factor must be something that endows a being with self-awareness, volition, and the capacity to value transcendental ideals. There is an important difference between awareness and self-awareness. It seems they have conscious awareness just as plants and animals do, but not conscious self-awareness as humans are supposed to have. There is something animalistic and rudimentary piloting their bodies. Put another way, their minds are like sand castles instead of real castles. Unlike other people, their conscious energy is more diffuse, dull, impermanent, and amorphous rather than solid, sparkling, crystallized, and concentrated. There is a certain simplicity, flatness, and inertness to their essence, even if their intellects are highly developed. Psychically scanning their consciousness reveals something interesting. Nevertheless, in the presence of others they can put on a flashy show of concern, distress, or altruism for purposes of social manipulation for example, crocodile tears to elicit sympathy, or doing something nice for another solely to guilt trip them later and extort a favor. They also appear entirely incapable of empathy, soul-searching, and willful self-sacrifice. They lack comprehension of anything beyond the material sphere of the five senses, and have no interest in such metaphysical matters except as flashy accessories to boost their social image. They lack individuality, independent thinking, and are strongly biased toward holding a herd mentality. Sometimes these traits are camouflaged by a polished social exterior, but anyone with a discerning eye can see through the disguise. Their behavior tends toward being glib, shallow, egotistical, narcissistic, mundane, predatory, and materialistic. The latter is what may account for the body of empty people present in the population.Д«ut what exactly is missing in them? The answer is clear if we look at their common behaviors and qualities of consciousness. In other words, what psychiatry would diagnose as APD was only the more extreme, criminal, sloppy manifestation of a condition that otherwise expressed itself more widely in a socially acceptable and less incriminating manner. I had noticed in this person an emptiness behind the eyes and a very shallow conscious essence, which seemed to be at the root of the behaviors I observed.Д®ventually I realized that this same root condition was present in some others who were not outwardly sociopathic, but whose lack of heart was masked by a well-adapted social exterior. Heartless and soulless were descriptive terms, but little did I know just how literally true they were. The idea of empty people first dawned on me in 1999 after having done much research into sociopaths and psychopaths, their condition being medically known as APD or вЂњAntisocial Personality Disorder.вЂќ My interest in the subject grew out of having been forced for many years to suffer under someone whom I later learned had all the signs of being a sociopath. This observation is not hard to miss, but it is easy to rationalize away, especially with modern society being so heavily brainwashed with the politically correct but unrealistic concept that everyone is completely equal in every way, which ignores functional differences due to environmental, genetic, and most importantly, metaphysical factors. They noticed that some people were strangely one dimensional and hollow inside. Over the years I have received emails from readers who came to this same conclusion. While they are not necessarily any less intelligent, successful, or physically healthy as anyone else, they nevertheless show no indication of having any higher components to their consciousness. Why do these terms even exist? Because out of necessity they had to be invented by those who independently noticed the same puzzling phenomenon, one for which there is no official name: some people seem to be missing something very important inside. (This article replaces Matrix Agents: Profiles and Analysis)Д®mpty people.

Soul vs soulless