Would downloading human minds into non-biological bodies deter the Berserkers?
The “crazy” President Belgola in Berserker Prime is the only one in the whole series that seems to come close to this strategy. The Berserkers don’t seek to destory human-made robots (as evidenced in that same book). So perhaps it’s only the biological substrates of thinking minds that they are programmed to destroy. Belgola seems to want to merge humans with machines as a way to transcend death and progress toward some greater order, perhaps even joining with the Berserker. I wonder, if humans were merged/made into machines in such a way, would the Berserkers still see them as life? (see around page 180 in the hardback version) In Berserker Base there was the man whose mind was downloaded into a computer and who then helped to fight the Berserkers. I can’t recall just now if the Berserkers’ attitude toward him was made clear, but I’d imagine that they’d attack such a being if it was helping badlife, but perhaps not if it wasn’t.
