NPCs are not soulless automatons

NPCs are egregore-controlled humans, they still have an independent mind but their mind is enslaved and used as a tool for expressing the egregore mind, like a two-way radio channel.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
Its possible to disrupt the link to egregore by subversive thought insertion(aka memes), allowing the original mind to assert its will and independent thought. The egregore can't focus on multiple mental challenges simultaneously and the "radio channel" has limited capacity.
NPCs can be reformed to PCs.

NPC:*prescription drugs swallowed like candy, junk food gulped down by the truckload, bathe in cellphone/wifi microwaves, breathe smog, eat microplastics & BPA,raised on soy formula + broken family + circumcision trauma *
NPC: All these are environmental factors that very weakly affect the brain, i've been informed by the media.