"Unless the persona programs are still running somewhere else," another suggested."Like on another CPU in the system." The first shook his head, about to argue, but the speaker kept on. "Or maybe it’s the ice that does it. You asked ‘who are you in the Matrix?' The answer’s the same, in or out of the Matrix. It’s your sensorium, the sum total of your experiences. Why couldn’t some black ice read your sensorium, kinda like reverse sim-sense? And then copy it somewhere in the system, while it’s killing your meat body? Your body’s gone, but your sensorium still exists. A ghost in the Matrix."