"The Angel of Laplace measures vectors…" she realized. "But integrated information can't be represented as vectors."
That meant that the Angel of Laplace couldn't record consciousness or thought. It was why Rui had never been able to create SOUL models based on the data that he collected from the Angel of Laplace, only predictive models.
Her eyes widened, quivering, as she gazed at the bodies of Siliscia and Sternon. "…That means that I can't restore their consciousness."
Consciousness was an extremely fleeting and delicate phenomenon. It didn't take much time after death for the information transcribing a person's consciousness to be eroded in quality.
Misha and Runark hadn't been dead for very long, the integrated information of their brains hadn't deteriorated.
But with Siliscia and Sternon, their brains had been dead for longer. Their neurons had begun to deteriorate, and with it, the information that was integrated along those neurons had also been destroyed.
