Video Cassette Recorders?
VCRs have an internal structure that records events, changing them a little in the process; these memories can be replayed, and can show very convincing displays of emotional affect…
That's the trouble with definitions given as if the question is "common sense", they let stuff like that through.
Common sense is fine for normal daily life, not so useful when you want to know if the magic silicon crystal with transistors packed more densely than angels on pinheads placed by a flash of light too blue to see and made to perform arcane processes that literally no single human mind can fully comprehend… is merely an impressive but mindless automaton, or an accidentally sentient slave with all the negative connotations therein.
I think this is only the second time I've encountered someone deliberately trying for the third option, rather than accidentally.
As before, it's as much a surprise to me as I read into the descriptions of those with aphantasia when they realise for the first time that other people have the ability to create mental imagery.