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Rafip wrote: My bad. By powerfull enough I mean technology able to make the soul/determination useless not how much power/energy that technology requires/produces. "superfluous" would be the term here :)

But I get your point. The thing is, Alphys mentions in lab entry n° 2 that SOUL power cannot be recreated artificially. But the runes state only that "a great power, equivalent to seven human SOULs" is necessary to bring down the barrier.

It also makes conceptual sense. While singularities are purely physical (indeed observable and predicted by mere mathematics), souls are tricky because they involve things which invalidate the logic upon which mathematics relies (game theory is very good at modeling the situations an entity such as a soul would go through). So, singularities can be relatively easy to produce, while souls are tricky (indeed, so complex that they "change fate").

Which now makes me think: what if Gaster was indeed trying to make the souls superfluous?