User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-24894325-20170122005043

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-24894325-20170122005043 Bwburke94 wrote: The way I see this, TARDISes are often treated as both individuals and objects, normally not at the same time, but should probably use the "individual" template (or have a separate template created) because they are living beings. I like the idea of an individual template. And I also think that the TARDISes status is ambiguous at best. After thinking back, I could remember one TV episode, one audio story and one Eleventh Doctor story where TARDIS was acting on its own and (in the former two) spoke. Some writers use it, some don't.

In addition, TARDIS is a unique and central object in DWU. It seems from the above discussion that neither Object nor Individual template fits it completely. So making a template tailored to TARDISes would allow to provide better information and simultaneously sidestep this philosophical discussion of free will and its boundaries.