That just gets into the whole Star Trek Theseus' Ship Paradox issue. Because teraporting is basically that. Breaking down your body into tiny particles and information, then using that information to reassemble the particles on the other end. Except particles, energy, and gravitic waves aren't alive and don't have thoughts or memories (Weird existence of the Pa'anuri aside). So how exactly is stream-of-consciousness maintained during the process? I guess everyone just collectively goes with Schlock's take on it: "If I lose enough of my mind, maybe I will forget that I was ever afraid at all." Basically, that's dead pre-teraport-me's problem, not mine.
Anyway, this will probably go down the usual rabbit hole of debate and discussion that bringing up teleportation and Theseus' Ship Paradox does, so let's skip that.
Other burning question. Pa'anuri-Schlock is still around, and is still Pa'anuri in nature, and thus susceptible to teraport. How is this resolved? Does he just exile himself somewhere far away? Does he willingly dissolve himself back in to Schlock Prime?
Edited by danime91 on Aug 18th 2020 at 8:47:55 AM
I think he just sits around the galaxy's core and controls the generator. Meanwhile, nobody teraports anywhere near his clubhouse.
But then again, he also somehow digitized himself to join the conference, so maybe he's digital inhabitant of the generator's systems now too.
Edited by Adannor on Aug 19th 2020 at 10:26:05 PM
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
He's quite active on twitter
"You can reply to this Message!"
Things apparently got a bit dicey with his breathing problems.
Consciousness teraport is presented as a different thing to the minds in-universe than the lazarus backups. Laz backup is a static data dump that takes dedicated effort to come alive. Brainport is immediate and the in-universe position it is no more "kill you then make a copy" than the regular spatial teraport is.