Sorry for the late reply, I missed the notification.
First of all, I find it amusing that you think of mid-wits as "non-sentient beings," but also quite insightful, as it explains FAR too much. For example, I got into an argument with @baah at one point, in which I brought up something very similar, saying that "people can be turned into tools." He was rather belligerent in his insistence that people are actors, and that my insinuation that they can be turned into tools was "insipid." Sure, no entity ever controls other people (sarcasm). Likewise, I'm quite aware that people not only can surrender their free will, but those who do usually demand others surrender their free will "for the greater good." Cough cough @prydefoltz cough cough
"The subject is not content in his servitude if others are free." - @jacobtothe
Anyway, I'd like to clarify something about why I have doubts about my former professor's status as a mid-wit; I think he had an intellectual crisis at some point, and still doesn't quite know how to resolve it. I have better things to do than try to help him, since he surrounds himself, willingly or otherwise, with so many damn socialists, and my constant arguments with them always drowned out the points I was trying to make.
Despite being a high-ranking officer in the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War, he seemed remarkably accepting of the fact that I was a communist at the time we met (I believed some weird shit as a teen-ager). Granted, I wasn't a tree-hugging vegan Antifa sympathiser, I was an unironic Soviet (despite being far too young to have grown up in the USSR), so I had a rather militaristic view of how society ought to be run at the time anyway. This is where the disagreements between us emerged - my professor, despite being a military man, is not at all fond of the Military-Industrial Complex that is so pervasive in the modern United States, and devotes so much of his blog to denouncing militarism in general. However, whenever he suggests how society should be run, he always defaults to a top-down, centralised system, probably because that's all he's ever known.
The real question then, is "how would someone who is not a mid-wit resolve such an internal crisis?" I could make a guess, based on my own experience, but unless one comes to the same conclusion as I did, I can't say if the process would be the same as well.