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.

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Someone (probably you) linked this earlier.
This is actually anti-PC when you connect the dots:

NPCs are characterized by lack of internal monologues
bicameralism involves one brain "talking" to the other one
thus bicameralist characters are PCs where one half of the brain houses the controller (the "soul") and the other handles the body