For the question posed it doesn’t really matter no. Assuming it works the way we expect it to in sci-fi and it’s an exact copy, for all intents and purposes it is you. There is nothing ethereal about the human consciousness—if everything is exactly as it should be, then you have all the pieces of “you” that are needed.
The teleporter dilemma only matters to the being using the device initially. If you’re vaporized, you die. You don’t have continuity of consciousness with a different set of atoms perfectly arranged to be you, even if they perceive that to be the case on the other side. Still you, just not the you that gets to continue to exist.
For the question posed it doesn’t really matter no. Assuming it works the way we expect it to in sci-fi and it’s an exact copy, for all intents and purposes it is you. There is nothing ethereal about the human consciousness—if everything is exactly as it should be, then you have all the pieces of “you” that are needed.
The teleporter dilemma only matters to the being using the device initially. If you’re vaporized, you die. You don’t have continuity of consciousness with a different set of atoms perfectly arranged to be you, even if they perceive that to be the case on the other side. Still you, just not the you that gets to continue to exist.