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Originally Posted by Varyon
If that doesn't sound like what you want, then I'd say you're probably looking for something of a transhuman setting rather than a cyperpunk one. You don't have to go as all-in as THS - maybe the human mind is too complex - and/or too integrated into its existing hardware - to be able to just do mind transfers, so you can't hop from one shell to another... but you can upgrade the body you're already in.
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In my cyberpunk world, human-level AI (if it is to retain it's sanity) requires the use of some sort of quantum chip. These chips can't be perfectly duplicated (so transferring consciousness from one machine to another is more like hypnotizing someone to act like you) and slowly degrade (so any really old AI is either insane or not really the same entity it started out as). I adopted this feature purely to support the setting I wanted to create.