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> These agents don't eat because they need to, they eat because literary tradition suggests they ought to.

Exactly, you're always going to get weird deviations from authentic human behavior if you don't also simulate the human body and everything that comes with it. I'd argue that "qualia" fall into this bucket as well.



You can take a human that can’t feel the body (i.e. under unaesthetic). That human can still be conscious.




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