Why do we believe replicants have a core of data that can be dumped? Or a debugging port?
Everything I've seen in the movies shows them to be bioengineered, not computer-based. Perhaps even then, reading out the contents of a mind is a destructive process.
They can have memories implanted, and deleted, and changed. So it seemed possible to me to have some form of neural scanning that doesn’t destroy the replicant.
Today there are humans who can train to beat polygraphs. It seems like replicants can train on this much more easily so this test more likely measures if the replicant wants to be found out than is actually off.
I like how the author brings up this is more a flaw in how society is measuring.
There’s a fun game called Inhuman Conditions [0] where players pretend to be an inspector and either a human, passive robot, or angry robot that explorers how to measure this.
In our world there’s brain imaging and it seems likely that in the future there’s going to be some form of non-destructive memory reading.
Replicants are not genetically human. Its within canon, I think, to have the process of creating a replicants be somewhat open loop. Perhaps they encode the beginning neural structure as a virus that's implanted in developing bodies, but otherwise don't have clean ways of interacting directly with brains and minds (that are not destructive - destructive or even expensive reads are also in scope for canon but not likely to be casually used)
Everything I've seen in the movies shows them to be bioengineered, not computer-based. Perhaps even then, reading out the contents of a mind is a destructive process.