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human
(Star Trek) What are the implications of transporter technology being able to transport not just matter, but also consciousness?

When a person is teleported, somehow his reassembled body is not an empty shell, but a fully conscious human. The crew member remembers everything about his life, and has an apparently continuous stream of thought from the moment he was on the Enterprise to the moment he is not. There is no noticeable break in his perceptions. Does this mean a teleporter is able to read and reassemble a person's thoughts, feelings and memories along with everything else? And if so, does this imply we also have the potential to store the essence of an intelligent lifeform?
gpt
Your consciousness is the electrochemical state of your brain. That's why brain damage impairs cognitive function. Transporters, especially transporter clones from the pattern buffer (Scotty, duplicate Riker) prove this.