If you transport into deep snow, does it put your feet on top of the snow and let you sink in or does it make two holes in the snow for your legs and put your feet on the ground?

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If you transport into deep snow, does it put your feet on top of the snow and let you sink in or does it make two holes in the snow for your legs and put your feet on the ground?

I think I understand the arguments, but I've never really understood at a fundamental level why this concept is so disturbing to many people. If you destroyed me and instantaneously made an exact copy, then I continue to survive in every meaningful way. You have to dip into some seriously non-materialist, entirely unsupported spiritual beliefs to claim otherwise.

I have no reason to believe my consciousness or the world itself is continuous, except that it seems less complicated than the alternatives that I can think up. What's more, given the fraction of my life during which I have no remembered experiences, it seems like I experience deaths every day which are a lot more serious and long-lasting than a momentary death on a transporter pad. If stepping onto a transporter means destroying every cell in my body and creating an exact copy. . . that's fine. Why wouldn't it be?

If you do believe in an immaterial soul. . . then, how does a transporter lock on to your soul and insure that it remains with your body?

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If you transport into deep snow, does it put your feet on top of the snow and let you sink in or does it make two holes in the snow for your legs and put your feet on the ground?

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