I did like the Bathysphere anecdote, which was new to me, and took it in the spirit of "add a limit, if you're worried about recursion depth." I admit it may not have been Sun's intent! And I'm fine with everyone voting their conscience.
In the same way that our brain's facial recognition logic falsely recognizes faces in burnt toast, your brain's programming skill is falsely attributing sensibility to S-Dial's perseveration and echolalia.