It's his brain chip, and also he has a spare.
Desty Nova has one in Battle Angel Alita. Compare Animating Artifact, Cranial Processing Unit and Heart Light. If it grafts itself onto another animal/character/clone body, the Heart Drive will take over the mind and sometimes even "mutate" it into its original form. One scary aspect of the Heart Drive is it can be a combination of Body Snatcher, The Symbiote and Artifact of Doom. Most do exactly that if given the option having the Heart Drive damaged. That is, unless the character has the foresight to hide it beneath body armor. At the extreme, they may consider all non-fatal damage trivial. Some Heart Drives also have a built-in Healing Factor to help repair or even rebuild their body. This is true for non-technology-based Heart Drives as well: characters whose intelligence is housed in a Heart Drive are also usually Made of Iron, able to shrug off injuries that would make mortal characters pass out, perhaps because their Heart Drive is isolated from physical sensations. Thanks to their Heart Drive, most robots can pull off Good Thing You Can Heal, their allies can rebuild them or just transfer them to a Body Backup Drive. Sort of like a cybernetic equivalent to a Brain in a Jar. If this is sounding a lot like a computer's Hard Drive, that's because it usually is one to many robot characters. and return the character back to life as if nothing happened. Some Heart Drives can even be casually removed, stored, and reinserted to the body. 
Unlike a Soul Jar, as long as the Heart Drive is outside the body the character is essentially dead, though they might remain awake and unable to take action inside the Heart Drive. The Heart Drive is in this sense similar to a Soul Jar: it contains (or, in some cases, is) the character's soul (or near enough that it makes no difference), and as long as it remains undamaged grants a measure of Immortality. A character with a Heart Drive has an organ, crystal, crystal organ ( so to speak) or actual hardware inside their body that contains the very self of the character.
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