system
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human
[Star Trek] How exactly does the Transporter work? Doesn't it just kill the user?

Specifically, what are its effects on the individual? I've never gone through one, but if you deconstruct the body and reassemble it elsewhere, aren't you just killing the person and creating a new one? For instance, if the Transporter malfunctioned and we ended up with a person still on ship and on the planet, we'd have two different people - they wouldn't share a consciousness. So isn't transportation just killing people and making copies?

To me this seems to be the case, unless I misunderstand how transportation works. Can anybody clarify this for me?
gpt
In the ST universe.   Consciousness is an emergent property from your memories and biology (see Riker Copy), however, we see Characters being aware in the pattern buffers and materialization process (see Barkley).