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For questions about the identity and identification means of a person or other being.

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Can teleportation using the reassembly of atoms preserve consciousness and therefore identity?

My concern is how the person could retain their own consciousness and identity doing this. Their teleported self is essentially a copy, so shouldn't their consciousness be a copy? … My big question is if I were to implement teleportation or revival of dead organisms in this matter and assume that it works properly, i.e., the identity is preserved, then are there any physical laws …
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