User blog comment:The Milkman/Shades of Purple/@comment-5287758-20120930050555/@comment-4237253-20121002204902

Here's something that the EC didn't address: the ridiculousness of the Crucible itself. How can it differentiate Synthetic and Organic life? What about the physiology gives away that it was "created" or "natural"? How can the machine tell the difference betwixt a VI, Shepard, the Reapers, the quarians, and the Geth? "Synthetic" is just a word. What indicates to a giant beam of light what the difference is?

Also, yes, for all intents and purposes, the Reapers would have to considered Sythentic.