#hpc server

In a lot of ways this is a case of "the body knows, but the brain doesn't know".

Physical memory and reflexes can effectively cover for most anything the mind lacks.

Here's another example:

Answer has an Eidetic memory. He can verbally repeat the exact location and index information of a book if he's seen it only once.

However, he can't use his memory and instincts the same way Chipp Zanuff can. In that sense, Chipp has a stronger sense of precognizant prediction in his kit of abilities.

Bedman once stated that Chipp's reflexes could out-run Bedman's ability to teleport and even mind-read, to the point where he would have to completely re-compose his Magic Theory.

Chipp's speed combined with his ability to read and predict others' intentions, means he has a step above any opponent he goes up against. In fact the only real reason he lost to Bedman the first time around is because Bedman could read his mind.

Happy Chaos is a naturally gifted genius... so his intelligence allows him access and the ability to process a great deal of information at any given time, much like Answer's Eidetic Memory.

Having access to the Backyard, as well as the Tome of Origin, means that he has a firm grasp of how Magic works on a fundamental level.

Magic, however... doesn't simply apply to spells or Elements: in this case, it applies to real world physics and spatial awareness. The link between the Backyard's defining information and the "reality" of this world.

Here's another example:

Axl Low has the exact same powers as I-No... so in-theory, he could "pull the moon" closer to the Earth just the same way I-No did.

The only things that keep Axl from being able to do that right now, are understanding the physics involved and the Magic that could cancel out the danger involved.

Axl could still "instinctively" mimic what I-No did if he so wished... it's just an issue of him "figuring out" on a basic level how she did what she did.

So, again, it really boils down to "knowing how" versus "doing".

For some, "doing" is easier than "knowing how"... like in Chipp's pre-cognizance example.

For others, "knowing how" is already established... it's just a matter of actually "doing", like in Happy Chaos' case.

Applying what you know in to physical memory and training that physical memory to a point where the things you "do" can be done without actually "thinking" about them, is actually a major goal in the case of fighting games.

Of course "not thinking" (auto-pilot) isn't necessarily a good thing, since you can sometimes do things out of bad habit or reflex and make mistakes, but having a certain level of awareness in any given situation helps improve how any given situation is handled.

Precise and Organized Knowledge. Precognitive Instinct. Practiced infallible Skill. Situational and Spatial Awareness.

In Guilty Gear's timeline of events, Magic technology has made it possible for Humans to backup their personal memories via an HPC Server (High Performance Computing Server drive device).

Asuka himself has used such a device to restore his OWN memories when he had to Retrograde his aging body (he's over 170 years old, the same as Sol, believe it or not).

Likely, over the course of creating Justice, Asuka wanted to restore Aria's Memories and give her a stable body to live in (after cryogenically freezing her dying body, suffering from the TP infection she had contracted sometime before 2015) , but as things progressed, what he thought would make a suitable Gear vessel for her eventually got commandeered by the U.S. Government and turned in to one of their weapon R&D projects.

Still, the process of restoring or even copying memories isn't perfect, the same as the difference between a lossy mp3 or a lossless FLAC file.

As it so happens, Justice "inherited" her memories from the original Aria's cryogenic remains, so in effect Justice is a copy of Aria by proxy.

That doesn't mean Justice has the same personality as Aria, however.  It just means she has the same "basic memories".  In much the same way that Eddie rebelled against the memories he inherited from Zato... Justice did the same against Aria.

Even Asuka R. Kreutz himself has said that memory restoration via an HPC server isn't a perfect process... especially if the subject has a young brain that may not be capable of fully comprehending the memories being written on to it.  When he made himself "young" again, Asuka needed time to adjust to the new body as well (which was the subject matter for GG2's story of "That Man").

It probably has a lot to do with the idea that the Human Brain isn’t fully developed at that stage of growth and can still be easily molded and serve towards storing his backed up memories that much easier.

Children are typically more capable of learning and remembering things than young adults, though it’s not without its problems.

Something interesting to ponder:

The Gearmaker was anywhere between age 20-35 years old at the beginning of the Gear Project in 2014 (not much younger or older than Frederick).

Tack on 2 years when the Gear Project was completed and he'd be 37 years old at most.

Now...tack on another 57 years!

"That Man" would have possibly been 94 years old at the start of the 2nd Gear Project!!!

How is that even possible? How could a scientist such as himself live that long!?

Most humans on average live for 50 years. 80 if they're lucky.

So then, was "That Man" retrograding his body even as far back as that time?

It's possible he knew Raven (and the technology possibly associated with Raven) even back then!

Remember, Sol is 170 years old as of 2186, since the end of the Gear Project.

And yet, "That Man" meets him and even FIGHTS him on even terms! "That Man" could possibly have been even younger than his appearance at the start of the original Gear Project! Surprising, isn't it?

So how old is he? At least 170 years old, like Sol...but his physical age appears to fluctuate...and he's had to keep his mind's memories backed up on an HPC Server.