User blog comment:ComicBook Coby/Hank Pym: Bipolar/@comment-1458758-20131217051717

I dunno, with years of Artificial human heroes, Jocasta, Machine Man, Vision, Victor Mancha etc. Given many of these characters are not limited to a singular physical form, whether they exist within a singular form or not, would you consider them less alive? A.I. are perfectly capable of being considered living so long as they have a true sentience.

In many respects its just a divergence of human evolution. Through reproduction we create a new life form with its own consciousness. The A.I. in the Marvel Universe are no different, just created in another way.

I mean if Vision went and got himself irredeemably destroyed. I mean permanently and irrevocably dead, would you handle that as a hero having sacrificed himself, or the need for a new toaster?

Don't get me wrong, this is clearly not a situation that could be replicated with a real world example, but in terms of these characters, the artificial creatures in Marvel are as much sentient and living creatures as much as humans and other biological entities in Marvel.