"Why not?" he asked. "If humans have a heaven, why can't we? Data can exist in just about anything that allows it to be held, and if you download a Control Chip into a computer or convert it into a file, who's not to say that their consciousness would activate it, and it could move through networks and see the world and watch over those they care about?"

It was possible. Even if modern computer science learned as much as they could about data within Reploids and other machines, sentient life had a way of doing things that went beyond expectations. Humans alleged that they saw spirits, glimpses of heaven and hell, when they were close to death.

Reploids, within their given element, could certainly go beyond the expectations and do what needed to be done.

But...at the same time...

Scientifically, none of this could be proven. And even if it could, it was unlikely that humans would give much thought to it. The spiritual implications of a Reploid Afterlife was something that the more religious humans tended to avoid, and the more scientific denied as they denied the existence of an afterlife at all.

But who was to say that it didn't exist?