. . and what is it that’s ‘you' in the Matrix?" one was saying. Sly pegged him as the oldest, an "elder statesman" of perhaps twenty-three. "It’s your persona programs, right? And they’re running on your cyberdeck, right? So what happens when the ice crashes your deck? The persona programs stop running. And that’s it: there’s no more ‘you’ in there to be a ghost."