Quote Originally Posted by Carolingian View Post
So with that logic AI, Androids, or other forms of synthetic life-forms can never be alive or sentient? So Omega and Gigi are fake and belong in a zoo.
I didn’t say that they aren’t sentient. I said they’re not a society.

They only exist because Sphene cant let her people go. All their needs are met by the system and they’re just there for Sphene’s enjoyment. There’s a few different “habitats” with various things going on to keep them entertained but one of the Endless even says they can only watch the same play over and over so many times. They probably can’t even really form new meaningful relationships amongst themselves because who knows when one of them might get sucked back in again and only manifested centuries later. It took that one NPC 3 “reincarnation” cycles for him and his beloved from their actual living lives to be made corporeal in Living Memory at the same time.

Since they’re stuck there, there’s only so much they can accomplish and eventually the terminal is just going to randomly stick them back in the server after some time anyway. There’s nothing for them to do except exist, at least the Ancients were actively discovering things and trying to improve their society. Closest the Endless have is the guy who hands out buckets of fake popcorn.

It’s not their fault though, Living Memory is designed to just be some sort of artificial afterlife collecting the dead to be displayed. But in that regard it’s more like a zoo than an actual society.