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. The Omicrons in general, who used to be people but then uploaded their brains into computers (not unlike the Endless), aren't a society. And what about the Crystal Exarch? We upload his memories into young G'raha after he died yet act like he's still very much the same person we travelled the first with. Is that also just fake?

I honestly couldn't disagree more. If a creature/being has self-awareness, intelligence, and the capability of change and their own dreams and desires then I'd personally consider them alive and at the very least sentient. And the Endless possess all of that. We even see them beat the Turing Test.

But I can respect it if you simply belief that artificial intelligence can never be considered sentient but then I am honestly curious if you think the same of AI characters in other franchises like EDI in Mass Effect, Data in Star Trek, Cortana in Halo, C3P0 in Star Wars, and Wall-E in... Wall-E.



No, those are two separate questions. Are the Endless alive/sentient, and were we right in stopping Sphene? I'd personally answer both questions with yes, I just question whether the way we stopped Sphene was truly the best way, and I criticise the shallow writing surrounding both of these things. Again, it's not unlike the ending of ME3 where destroying the Reapers also suddenly required the destruction of EDI and the Geth because the writers said so, just like destroying Sphene also requires the destruction of the Endles just because the writers say so. No matter all the potential alternative solutions.
Honestly your all making this harder than it needs to be. Pull the plug shut it down. There are an abomination. What makes there existence even remotely understandable. They are like ashkin being who need to long since be removed. There existence threatens other shards I long since made my peace. Shutting down there existence is a mercy. What did Erenville mother call it a twisted mosuleum