Commodification of Sentience

The narrative repeatedly treats Data as a resource to be inventoried, demonstrated, and appropriated for research. Maddox's language of 'disassembly', Nakamura's strategic framing, and Phillipa's procedural rulings convert personhood into property. This theme explores the ethical dangers of reducing sentient beings to data points or prototypes—showing how scientific ambition, institutional convenience, and bureaucratic language conspire to normalize commodification until contested by moral testimony.