originally posted in:Halo Archive
They are digitized. The disintegration is a byproduct of the intensive quantum scan the Composer emits that sublimates your organic consciousness into a digital state. The Composer then takes back the digital essences, and stores them or sends them elsewhere.
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So it kinda takes your "brain" and moves it into storage?
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Your brain is destroyed, but before that it is scanned and remapped into a digital state. Now of course, this enters an interesting dilemma. Is this digital essence actually you, or an exact replica? That really depends on your understanding and belief of consciousness.