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>The conscious mind is 100% a function of the physical brain, the specific arrangement of neurons, neurotransmitters and other molecules within the physical structure of the brain is what creates subjective experience and NOTHING ELSE

>If your physical structure is teleported by reconstructing your body precisely at a molecular level the teleported person wouldn't be "you" because there is something ephemeral about your consciousness that cannot be replicated purely by recreating the physical brain exactly

These are contradictory stances. Why do people who claim consciousness is purely derived from the physical brain hold the exact opposite stance when it comes to teleportation? If the arrangement of matter in your body is the sole arbiter of what constitutes you then any copy using that arrangement should be you in all ways, correct? But then they backtrack and claim there's actually something super special and non-physical about the mind that cannot be duplicated even if you reconstruct your brain perfectly atom by atom? What gives?