Star Trek teleportation paradox

Teleport a teleporter within a teleporter...
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>consciousness resides in our brain cells
Inter-species differences are mostly defined by quantity and organization of neurons, not by differences in the individual neurons themselves. You can find the same basic sorts of neurons in a human brain in the brains of otherwise radically different creatures like squid.

And of course it doesn't even stop there because at an even lower level it wouldn't make much sense to say there's anything special about the individual carbon atoms used. One carbon atom is going to be pretty well interchangeable with any other carbon atom in the universe.

I imagine it would feel like a nap: consciousness off, disintegration and reconstruction, consciousness on exactly where it left off. But other than that, yes.

If nanomachines were to slowly replace all your brain cells, and you perceive no change. Would you still be you ?

>Would you still be you ?
There is no real "you" thing. The concept is just a convenient way of abstracting / blurring together all the actual things a given "self" has in common including memories, habits, skills, aptitude, association with a particular body, etc. Changing one or more of those actual things simply changes one or more of those actual things. Speaking about what it would do for the "self" isn't a coherent thing to do because that concept never had a real existence of its own.
Questions like this are like asking if you replaced all the green US dollar bill with red US dollar bills would the unit of currency they represent still exist or would it "just be a copy." The answer is there is no answer because the question is premised on the false belief that a concept has some sort of literal existence.

Google neurogenesis

If nanomachines slowly killed neurons of your brains one by one, would you be dead by the end of the process? Obviously yes. So the fact that the change is done gradually does not guarantee that every property of the brain is preserved (such as consciousness).

What you are describing is a philosophical zombie. I.e. An entity that behaves and 'thinks' like a self-conscious being but in reality is a non-conscious organic robot

That isn't me. I sense myself. It's not about thought or emotion or sensory input. I am aware of myself. It is ridiculous and self-evident to me that my consciousness is real and distinct

>What you are describing is a philosophical zombie.
How do you know?