What if you can reprogram an eeprom to make it work, would you consider it bricked? You're not replacing any hardware and are fixing only software. At the end

What if you can reprogram an eeprom to make it work, would you consider it bricked? You're not replacing any hardware and are fixing only software. At the end of the day language is (for all pragmatic purposes) finite but possible states of the universe are not, so you can't have a perfect definition of that catches all possible states you want while excluding all others with perfect accuracy.