”萬宜思思”, $63.8事件, Metal Gear Solid 2

在 MGS2 中，有一對話:

Raiden:	...What the hell does this mean?
Otacon:	I think it means -- you've been talking to an AI.
Raiden:	That's impossible!
Otacon:	The Colonel probably isn't GW per se.
	GW was most likely stimulating cortical activity in the dormant part of your brain
	through signal manipulation of your own nanomachines.
	The Colonel is in part your own creation, cobbled together from expectations and experience...
Raiden:	That's crazy...
Otacon:	But it's probably the truth.

有很多virtual beings在網上, ”萬宜思思” 和 $63.8事件僅是其中現象. 主要的問題是因為我們是主觀的動物, 如果有這個特點，我們在定義活物或死物, 就不能相信我們的感覺和直覺.

儘管我們不肯定那人是一個真人或是有類似於思想的一個過程, 但因為我們看到標誌 (signs), 便會人性化死物.