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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6659828" data-attributes="member: 13107">I think this is close to the answer, but, I thought that state could be transported without it being determined?But, there is another problem: Quantum mechanics apparently doesn't allow copying.  See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem".If transporting consciousness requires copying of quantum state, it would seem that a transporter must destroy the initial state in order to transport it to another location.  Personhood / identity / the essence of consiousness seems to be preserved.On the other hand, if consciousness does not require copying of the full quantum state, which is to say, if a lower fidelity copy is sufficient, then maybe both a transporter and a copying transporter are possible.  But, that seems to bring up a different question: If a person goes into a coma, and their brain function is largely disrupted, then they recover, are they the same person, or a new person who has acquired another's memories?  This could be taken further: How much is a person, today, the same as the person, yesterday?  Conscious state might arise in the morning, pieced together from the memories of past days, and then dissipate every evening.Thx!TomB</blockquote>