>>4556554This question used to bother me deeply; seriously, I thought if teleporters were invented tomorrow I'd be the only tinfoil-hat-idiot not to take them to Mars Colony IV or whatever.
But I've come to support the idea that the thing that my neurological system defines as "I" is simply a self-modeling process created ad-hoc whenever it's needed: I wake up - it's strapped together and given some access to internal/external information, I fall asleep - it's unraveled and disappears.
In that respect, the "I" that was "destroyed" when the body entered the teleporter was never really a "someone" to begin with, and if it was then it was created when I woke up that morning, and died tens of thousands of times before.
tldr: the self is a temporary process the system recreates every day, stopping or restarting it is meaningless.
> inb4 nihilism; fuck yeah, nihilism.