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KamikazePotato posted...

Seen it before, still a bad comic. Sleep =/= being disassembled on a molecular level.

Philosophy has already gone way further than this topic and this comic though. No sleep or teleportation required.

In fact, from one moment to the next, there's no way to know if "you" ever existed, let alone maintained a consistent existence between those 2 points in spacetime. You could've been brought into existence this very instant, with the past being an installed memory that never actually happened. There's no way to experimentally distinguish that scenario from a fully lived life.

Quantum mechanics also agrees with that interpretation, including theories like the block universe and super determinism in general.

So yeah it's a dumb comic but you gotta answer way harder questions in physics and philosophy if you want to say the teleporter is a bad idea.