[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

You wouldn’t want to be telaported anyway. You die on the telaportation pad when the machine rips all your atoms apart. The “you” that gets reconstructed has to be a different you, each time.

[FredZarguna]

Nope. Not true. If your state vector was transmitted and you were constructed from it, it would BE you, not a copy. This isn't Newton's Physics; it's quantum mechanics.

[Greysard]

You wouldn’t want to be telaported anyway. You die on the telaportation pad when the machine rips all your atoms apart. The “you” that gets reconstructed has to be a different you, each time.

You are dying and getting resurrected all the time due to quantum foam. "You" now and "you" 1 picosecond later are not the same. Of course, there are processes that act similarly on slower time scale. For example, most cells of your body die and get replaced, from once every few days to once in a year.

The "self" should be associated with consciousness. Or, as ancients used to call it, "soul." It persists even as hardware that runs it is changed, replaced or partially destroyed. These changes do not matter - not any more than a computer's OS depends on the exact USB port where you plug the mouse, or the brand of the mouse.

[Veto!]

The “you” that gets reconstructed has to be a different you, each time.

Wow! This could replace plastic surgery. Think of the old stars who could be TOTALLY reconstructed into younger and perhaps even talented stars.

[SisterK]

1950 sci-fi movie “The Fly”
what could possibly go wrong?