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Teleporters are like people eating candy, no further questions.
Simple as.
Why should I believe that my consciousness would persist into a newly-formed entity created somewhere else? The moment you step into the teleporter you die, and a homunculus with your memories emerges elsewhere.
An exploration: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
My introduction to the topic was this animated short
depends on the tech.
Teleporters turn you into sparkly stardust and then suspend the scattered glittery particles in a fish bowl. As the particles sink to the bottom of the bowl, they transport the bowl at super-luminal speed to the destination. On arrival the particles appear in the normalized order prior to decomposition. The fish bowl is destroyed instantly in the process.
Its very simple stuff.
I am of the mind that star trek transporters don’t make copies (except in rare cases csused by external bs, like the time Ryker was duplicated), they are literally converting matter to energy, moving the energy, and then converting it back again. It’s the same you, with maybe as much lost in transmission as skin cells you’d lose overnight anyway.
Visually, that’s what I got out of it as well. Also presumably how you can get people stuck in teleporter buffers for indefinite periods of time and why teleporters can be “blocked” by dense structures or electromagnetic storms.
If people were just getting scanned and copied, the teleporters wouldn’t fail nearly as often as they do.
Reg even talks about being able to see things through the whole transmission and the only thing weird about it to the other characters was that he saw more than just electronic noise.
You will never Ship of Theseus me with that explanation
Nervous System, Heart, and Eyes are pretty much the only things that mostly don’t get Ship of Theseus’d during your lifetime.
Teleporer!
