So Alex Murphy died
So the way I take it is that Alex Murphy died when he got shot up by Clarence and his gang. When Clarence finished off Murphy by shooting him in the head it was then that Murphy technically and literally died. All the attempts to save Murphy in the ER room were useless because Murphy was already dead. And so as such he was declared dead at the hospital but his brain and part of his digestive system was kept rather than put in the morgue for burial or some other form of disposal and after connecting his brain and digestive system to all the cybernetic machinery that would make him into Robocop they somehow brought it back. They somehow brought his brain back to life and what was Alex Murphy became Robocop. And although Murphy's brain still has some of Murphy's memories which are made apparent in flashbacks during certain parts of the movie it mostly just functions to fulfill the directives that Robocop was programmed to fulfill, (serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law). So, that being the case Robocop is just a cybernetic zombie who goes about doing what he's programmed to do.
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