It’s Tim, in the process of discovering his own voice, who soon recognizes in Hawk the unfeeling operator, the self-described “Switzerland,” the “coward,” and so poses the greatest threat to his position.

It’s what makes you a thinking, sentient being rather than an unfeeling mechanism.

The conventional wisdom about insects has been that they are automatons—unthinking, unfeeling creatures whose behavior is entirely hardwired.

Horse battles unfeeling bureaucracy to get his benefits; Lomper is visited by loan sharks.

As an unfeeling hunk of metal that could unsettle even the most dedicated tech utopian, though, Spot never had a chance.