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Well, not exactly. The Endless have the capacity to affect Dynamis. That means even with just memories, they are able to experience, feel, hear, think, and respond accordingly to their emotions. It's not just an AI simulated response, or else Dynamis would not have been influenced in any way because they aren't 'feeling' the emotions they are acting out. We see this through Deadwalk Strayborough and from shutting off the Terminals still have people roaming around without the Terminal during MSQ, meaning they are not connected to the terminal's memory banks / not connected to the burning lifeforce of aether as sustenence. They exist purely through the strength of their obsessions/emotions and can persist even without direct access to it. Even Sphene in the final trial managed to influence Dynamis to restore her memory banks and go off on Wuk Lamat.
they're just xerox copies of already dead people being fed souls. The soul that's affecting the real world is the ones stolen from sacrifices
You can make dead tissue move by sending electrical signals through it, that doesn't make it alive

killing someone and injecting an AI script into the corpse to simulate someone else until it degrades is not a shades of gray issue