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The kind of teleportation devices i'm talking about are ones that break you apart and reconstruct you at another location, just like the ones shown on star trek and some other sci-fi shows. The Problem:
The moment you are teleported you cease to exist or in otherwords you are now dead. The perfectly recreated version of you believes he/she is you and is completely unaware that the original "you" is a different consciousness. Even if the new "you" is made from the exact same energy and atoms, the original consciousness ceased to exist when the teleportation started.
The only way to get around this problem is to teleport the entire body without changing or breaking apart the persons brain, kinda like keeping the person inside a protective bubble while moving to a new location.
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