User blog comment:Campbell430/New Assassin's Creed for 2011/@comment-74.176.78.128-20101128234634/@comment-69.230.78.29-20101202030725

this is just a pure guess, but what if subject 16 programed his memories and/or consciousness into the animus, since he managed to put all those puzzles in it as well. This would mean he is "alive" in one way or another.