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Ha ha, well, heres' the thing, HP - the writer has an obligation not to fool the reader but to provide clues as to the real subtext. Why do it? To recreate the sense of what the character is experiencing and especially by using a first person participant narrator mode so the reader can really identify with what it would be like to possess all the characteristics of personhood while being a machine - a chattel owned by a man like Brock.