Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[ElHeggunte]

Basic literacy, the gamer says, while failing to recognize that the very literary work being discussed has had its in-universe definitions of things like 'sentience' and 'life' redefined several times as new forms of each are discovered.

And that definition doesn't apply to the Endless, who are by all accounts just projected recordings of people who are long dead. They're just simulacrums, nothing more than cheap copies that Sphene's goal is to maintain at the expense of actual living people. I'm really not grasping how you think "life" or "sentience" apply to the Endless. If I taught ChatGPT things about me today and then I died tomorrow, would you consider it to be alive just because it regurgitate the things I taught it? It can pretend to be me all day long, but that doesn't make it me and that doesn't make it "alive" by any stretch.