User blog comment:Xaero Dumort/"Synthetics" as applied to the ending and the sentence that nullifies IT./@comment-24.8.44.219-20120824090949/@comment-5337704-20120824163859

Ever watch the movie Terminator, the first one that is? When skynet starts killing off humans, trampling over skulls. But yet the resistance is still driving cars, which are mechanical devices. The A.I. possibly V.I. (wouldnt go that far as its not an actual intelligence, just a programmed response) are removed, gone, destroyed.

The Normandy is piloted by Joker, heance the ship doesnt lose itself, but it would lose E.D.I. and any of her functions she had control over, or atleast the controls will than be open up again. Basically, whats left of the geth machines, reaper machines, are just husks without a "soul". A dead human would function the same way on life support, give it electric shocks, but without the "inner part", its still just a husk of the body.

Of course, just my opinion.