Perhaps by beating him you somehow knock some sense into him.
I have good news concerning the final boss! For a while, I thought that his concentric-spheres-of-energy attack was undodgable. I was wrong! When my roommate and I were beating SSE for the second time on Monday, I accidentally down-dodged it! And then died. Now, however, we have mastered sidestepping the attack, and we feel cool.
I won't pretend that any of you didn't know this already, so don't mock my enthusiasm.