User blog comment:TheUnseelieCourt/Harvesting & Uploading Consciousness/@comment-5379655-20121117062825

Wow, I can't believe no one has commented on this considering this is a much more interesting blog post than all the ones out there right now. I can't tell you for sure that where it comes from off the top of my head, but you're completely right. All of the victim's minds become part of the gestalt consciousness of the new Reaper (Gestalt meaning an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts). This is referenced in the conversation with Sovereign in the first game when he says that, "We are each a Nation," obviously referring to a nation of minds that act as an organized whole in something akin to, yet above a democracy. I'll have to double check this, but I believe the gestalt consciousness description comes from a codex entry, which would qualify as cannon and win you your argument.