Would love to hear your take on this. Is it just a missed game asset or is it in the realm of Johnnys delusions/split personality that is implied here? I mean did Robert John Linder save his alternate personality Johnny Silverhand or did John Linder "die" and then reborn as Johnny Silverhand.
My take is the latter. After/during the Mexican conflict when he desertet the corpo military, what was left Linder "died" and corpo hating anarchist Silverhand was born from the used and traumatised husk of a man known as Robert Linder.