Honestly it doesn’t make sense, if V gets fried by soulkiller there shouldn’t have been a way to come back since the biochip is busted...
In the first meeting, Alt says that she will record consciousness and engram, but the soul will cease to exist.
But then in the final after Mikoshi Alt says that V will continue to live as before if he returns to his body.
Are there any other references in the game about the soul and what does it mean?
Does soulkiller really transfer the real V? Do we see the new copied V in the epilogue?
I ask you not to speculate and to show facts from the game itself or lore if it's possible.
V is not fried though, it seems like the engram is transferred to the brain itself. V's brain -> (digitalization) engram -> ("decoding" or something) back to V's brain.
Three possibilities, depending on how the Soulkiller works in practice;
1) Soulkiller works like copy-paste works in computers, in which case the non-cloning theorem kicks in and the subsequent copy is different from the original in sublte ways and thus a different person. This has two interpertation itself, one very dark;
a) Soulkiller does not validate the copy and accepts the difference between the copy and the original.
b) Soulkiller validates the copy and effectively kills numerous previous copies until sufficient parity with the original is achieved.
2) The Soulkiller reroutes the brain into a digital emulation of the brain, slowly shutting off the parts of the brain it has already emulated, thus transferring the conciousness of the person from 'ganic to silicon substrate. If the person is cut off from their body and allowed to experience the net, this causes major changes in personality in the long term. Mikoshi virch can stave off this change indefinitely.
3) The Soulkiller transfers the conciousness of the person to silicon substrate and this experience changes the person in profound ways. The V downloaded back into his body is not the same person that connected to Mikoshi.
The problem as far as we know soulkiller doesn’t work that way.
It copies it’s victim, Fries their brain then stores the conciousness in an engram.
In the first meeting, Alt says that she will record consciousness and engram, but the soul will cease to exist.
But then in the final after Mikoshi Alt says that V will continue to live as before if he returns to his body.
Are there any other references in the game about the soul and what does it mean?
Does soulkiller really transfer the real V? Do we see the new copied V in the epilogue?
I ask you not to speculate and to show facts from the game itself or lore if it's possible.
Because it is barbaric if used on unwilling victim.It can be argued that the reason Soul Killer is called Soul Killer is that the act of using it is barbaric in regards to most humans understanding - most of them being religious. It kills but also creates life.
You're going to Mikoshi. Arasaka's "soul prison", to be left at Saburo's/Yorinobu's mercy. Of which Saburo actually have none towards any other than members of his family.You're not going to hell.
And who will get to decide who will get a new life and who don't? Saburo Arasaka? President Myers of the New United States of America? Unnamed chairman of the People's Republic of China incumbent as of 2077?It can repeatedly have a person live multiple lives without the aid of any god only science. Now you have no fear of what you're doing, because why should it matter?
This is not the intended vision CDPR has of the use of soulkiller during the ending.The point about the soul ceasing to exist is this.
Imagine if you - in real life - had a terminal illness. And your mind and all your memories etc. were copied over to a clone.
It still wouldn't save you. Because YOU would still die. And your clone will be "experienced" from the point of view of someone else. Which just happens to be the same person as you. But you would still be dead.
Soulkiller DOES NOT save your life. You die - and a COPY of you lives on. It's why the soulkiller/engram transfer ending options for V are all equally pointless as V living 6 months and dying. There is literally NO DIFFERENCE between these. Because either way, the real V dies. The engram of you being uploaded to a new body, is not you. But a copy of you - someone else - inheriting V's memories.
by the way, I remember that Arasaka said that they have mikoshi at all space stations
am I confusing something or is it really so?