Is there any consensus on how awake to the real world a hacker is when they are jacked into the matrix? Are they able to communicate as normal through compads or just talk out loud, or are they supposed to be in an comatose state and not able to communicate to the outside world in any way.
I can see being locked into the matrix with no outside senses being a turn off for doing too much hacking, especially in the middle of a mission.