>>9112343This is the big deal. If we imply consciousness can actually be transferred from one physical substrate to another, there's no issue in the first place. If it cannot, we must wonder why. Since the brain changes but your stream of experience doesn't necessarily end due to the changes, it's somewhere in the middle. Because as much as people argue memories = you, I disagree. My aunt with total amnesia is still my aunt whether the her 10 years ago and the her now have to way of being aware of the other's existence.
>>9112334Star Trek averts this issue because people can get lost in the slipstream between departure point and destination; I'm pretty sure they have an episode with a person stuck in the teleporter. Theirs is really more of an activatable wormhole than an atomizer.
I wonder if humanity ever will prevent heat death/find some cheat around it Cosmic AC style.
