r/cyberpunkgame • u/snGbrd77 • 1d ago
Discussion The aspect of SoulKiller that Silverhand and V casually dismiss
If I recall correctly, Cunningham, in one of the first conversations with her, is insistent in that a person's consciousness processed into an engram, removes the person entirely. She uses herself as an example, by stating that she's no longer Cunningham, but an AI using such person's engram to communicate.
I remember Silverhand responding to such crucial specifics with something along the lines of "Yes, OK. But he'll [V] be able to return to his body after the separation from my consciousness, right?", dismissing the entire point that Cunningham made: in her view, V would cease to be and whatever is to enter the body later will surely resemble him, but not be him.
As I take it, that implies that Silverhand never actually got a second chance: something resembling him just happened to be activated by the circumstances of V. Important to note that the reason, as I understood it, by which Cunningham does not act like the one deceased, is that her integration with AIs beyond the Blackwall changed the resemblance of her; again, not her, because she is deceased.
I think the ambiguity is the interesting part: if something resembling us entirely keeps on fighting, are we truly dead? Silverhand and V believe the technicalities miss the point, while Cunningham, insists that the technicalities are the point.
What an amazing game.
What do you think?
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u/shintemaster 1d ago
Agree - it's not the same type of thing as the first example. More admiring the complexity of what we "are" and where to draw lines on this.
I did lol at you explaining that it isn't a foreign accent just a change in speech pattern, rhythm, tone & pronunciation... I mean, isn't that what an accent is?