Algae doesn't "breathe up all the water-oxygen" though.

Ablaut reduplication is the pattern of vowels in song song phrases or sounds like tic-tac-toe. You are describing something else, though I don't know the name, or if it even has one, for that rule.

"He fell up three flights of stairs"

and I asked him about an exact copy of his consciousness. You lose continuity with reality every single day but I assume you don't have any issues with that or believing that you are still you despite you being a little different each and every time you regain consciousness. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, are you still you.

Why are you going on about the possibility of this happening in a question that is based on the premise of this being a reality? We are supposing that you can be copied, and that you are your consciousness. The transportation of matter isn't even important to this question so stop talking about atoms. You can experience nothing so that isn't a concern either. It all boils down to, are you your consciousness and if that consciousness is moved or copied, are you still you.

"experiencing darkness forever" so it is an afterlife issue for you. I'm not talking about atoms being copied, I specified consciousness. An exact copy of your consciousness is you.

What if you were moved while in a coma? If your consciousness was copied, how would you know. You would never experience nothingness, you would just wake up in a new place, so back to one of the old questions, what's the difference if you can't tell that anything has changed. Your consciousness is you. If your consciousness is in a copy of your body how is that not you? I'm getting the feeling that I'm having a discussion with someone who thinks that there is some component of this that involves a "soul" which is what makes them who they are as opposed to their consciousness.

You are your consciousness. As long as that continues, you are alive. An exact copy of you is still you. Do you feel that a person in a coma with no conscious thought wakes up and is now a different person?

Fingers crossed

If your consciousness is moved vs copied what's the difference? Would you ever know the difference?

You are your consciousness sitting in a sack of meat that takes a while to spoil. If you would rather die in that meat than be inside a computer or in another body, that's your prerogative. I would however point out that you just said that it would make two of you.

Definitely agree that it is far fetched and definitely will be long after our lifetimes if it ever does become possible. Just a fun question since the ethics of science are so important to debate before the product becomes a reality since things get so much more complicated once we have access to the immense power that science can bring us.

So you would take death and nothingness over continued consciousness?

I specifically stated in the question that the premise is that your consciousness is transferred. You can't ignore the premise if you are trying to answer the question in good faith. So if your consciousness is perfectly replicated, would you be willing to teleport? If you still say no, how is that any different from the computer upload?

You are your consciousness. If someone killed you in your sleep and uploaded an exact copy of your consciousness into an exact copy of your body, would you know when you woke up or would you just be you? Also please address the question of whether or not you would want your consciousness uploaded into a computer to prevent death.

So just like being uploaded into a computer?

And I'm asking what's the difference? You would wake up feeling exactly as you do now. Would you also not want your consciousness uploaded into a computer if it meant you kept existing?

If you die and instantly reappear somewhere else with all of your memories and everything about you is the same, what's the difference?