Would you use a transporter? Teleporter?

[Imaus]

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I mean this argument keeps coming up online and we have discussed it here in TBBS as well. Would you use one to travel on Earth if they were common and available in public places everywhere?

I'd give it a try that's for sure.

Star Trek has never said it kills you then reconstructs you so why does this argument keep coming up in online videos when we know it's a straight contiguous process?

Even if it kills you and reconstructs you...so...?

You are your neuron impulses and proteins and atoms and their positions. That's it, that's me, that's you. A bunch of atoms working with the four natural laws in quirky ways to produce sapient transient beings.

Disregarding the fact that teleportation would be an amazing feat of computing, energy containment and technology, there's nothing amiss here unless someone is some dualist, and a dualist at that who thinks the souls or conciousness' tie to the body is so fickle to not stay attached just because of energy-matter transfer and conversion.