system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] Since there are people that have a phobia of going through transporters (given the possibility that they copy people and delete the original), what kind of experiments could you run to test for this concern?
gpt
Interestingly, this existential concern of transporters wasn't really addressed in depth. Most of people's fears of transporters comes from some mundane malfunction that could occur during transport.

The "copy" vs. "original" is a philosophical distinction and not really subject to experimental analysis. You are broken down into subatomic particles, converted into energy, that energy is then reconverted into matter and reassembled at the destination site.