Quote Originally Posted by CNitsah View Post
I don't know how you got that from my message. I'm not saying this is not philosophical enough for me.
I'm saying that the eternals basically ask the question "what does it mean to be alive" (or more accurately, "what are the limits of being alive"), which is a question that has been there for hundreds, even thousands of years, with no definitive answers. Then FFXIV gave a simple answer. If your personnal belief align with that answer given in DT and you consider that the endless don't meet the requirements to be considered alive, you will not have any problem with it. If you consider they do meet the requirement, you will have problems with the way DT treated them.

I'm not giving a solution, I'm explaining why both vision have their arguments, and why there will never be any consensus on that kind of question.
You clearly said "they have the capacity to make new memories, they have individuality". But those are all qualities they had while alive. So please explain how a copy and digital simulation of a dead person, somehow leads to life?

It's not an ethical or deep question. If your grandma died today, and an AI was able to replicate her behavior with a projection of your grandma that was localised to your neighborhood by a projector, is that now your grandma? Does that have rights? Maybe if you are willfully suppressing what you know is true because you want to win internet arguments, but you aren't deep.

The digital projection would never be your grandma no matter how authentic it behaved. You know it and I know it. And that's what the Endless literally are.