[The candid admission actually gets Ford to snort. Alright, fair. He can't say he wouldn't have felt the same way, at least a little bit.]

Of course. Inorganic or artificial life always has it hardest. Do you know I've had to have multiple arguments with other trainers about MIPS and whether or not it's 'really' alive?

... I should specify, MIPS is man-made. [Not that it wiggling around like a Bethesda dragon or stubbornly T-posing by turns wasn't a dead giveaway.] It's a similar but marginally less, uh, globally-destructive situation.