Jecht and Spira

[Sephiroth]

Yes, they are as real as the aeons Yuna summon are. That's why I'm calling it aeon-zanarkand . I guess it's a bit of a misnormer to call them AIs though. I got the impression that they all have a soul based on one of the dead zanarkandians of a thousand years ago.

I say AI because they very well are individuals, being able to think, with their own consciousness and soul but not born by nature. So an "Artificial Intelligence". This is more a semantical thing between you and me here. They very well can be made with the blueprint of 1000 year old Zanarkand people, still they are there own living beings with a real consciousness, a real soul. A clone is also made with a blueprint and though probably 100% identical by looks and memory, meaning he even thinks he is the person, never the original person as he does not have the consciousness but a new one (which is the reason why cloning will never bring you back except you magically can transfer your own consciousness/soul). And that (the Zanarkanders, not the clones), as being artificially made is pretty much an A.I. Of course there are many definitions for A.I., consciousness, soul and such philosophical things but in the core when it comes to what it really important, I guess you can understand what I mean. They are people like we are but have had a beginning as a dream and are bound to that dream (not that people there cannot conceive a child but they would still be bound to the dream) and so there really does exist "something inside of their body that is the person", in short what we understand as consciousness or soul - depending on how much meaning you define the term with.