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Emerson Green convinced me that p-zombies are plausible. So there’s no way to know if a teleporter would end your consciousness.
Maybe not from the outside, but you'd still know if you're conscious, right?
P-zombies always seemed like anti-materialist navel gazing to me. I don’t think they’re meaningfully possible.
From my perspective, it is the materialists who are navel-gazing.