>>11416062>Wouldn't my current consciousness disappear after having my atoms disassembled and the person being reassembled somewhere else be a separate consciousness?Yes, which implies possibly, and the possibility is sufficient for concern. They would have to prove definitively that "me in the now," as you put it, would be preserved, which seems impossible. The person who steps off the transporter pad could think it's me, with all my memories and personal experience, including the memory of worrying about this, and could think it is "me in the now," so to speak, but indeed is only a new "me in the now," because the old "me in the now" was obliterated in the transportation process.
Why would I willingly step into a transporter knowing this?
No one with the "me in the now" reasonably ever would. Alas, NPCs are a real thing. Such people don't have only a "me in the now," but in fact exist as any clone ever including their transported clone (including every version of them in any multiverse). Such """"people"""" will even scoff at the mere suggestion that there's anything different about "me in the now."