 So Dave says, suppose Captain Koch is in the teleprompter about to be beamed up to the enterprise. The teleprompter disassembles Koch atom by atom and sends the information, not the atoms, back to the enterprise, with the atoms in the ship assembled into Captain Koch. Does the transported Koch have the same consciousness as the original? I'm so glad you asked that. Never step into a transporter. It's your death. No. To create somebody with the same molecular structure as you is not to create you. Just imagine that the transporter works this way. It scans you, leaves you alone, and creates on the enterprise a duplicative view. And somebody then punches that you in the face. You're not going to feel anything. You are not just a description of you. You are whatever stuff, whether it's a physics stuff or some as yet undiscovered stuff, that is there with that organization. So, no. Absolutely no. It is not the same consciousness. Do not step into a transporter. That's terrible. I mean, of all the sci-fi, you know, inventions, given how much I travel, the one that I am more than any is the transporter. Oh, yeah. But we're going to have something like that. But it won't work that way. It won't work that way. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com. I go to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and, of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.