User blog comment:TheUnseelieCourt/Harvesting & Uploading Consciousness/@comment-4973403-20121118154621

The trouble with guessing if a Reaper preserves its former minds once the reaper is created is that we do not have any CODEX evidence. Sovereign was outright hostile to Shepard and company, but we do not know if he was one of the original Reapers, or if he was a creation of a "cycle." I would think that the races which were assimilated would want to resist the cycle, not wanting their fate to be shared with the galaxy again and again...and again. So those minds which are dissolved and turned into a fine paste, then whipped into a bunch of others do not quite come out intact. At the very least, wouldn't they still be indoctrinated?