Life after death?

[Ksa]

Why would it not be you? You said it yourself, you're no longer baring the atoms you were born with, but does that make a difference? Say I change my processor in my computer, when I turn it back on, is it not the same Windows configuration the way I left it before changing the processor? It's the connection that counts. The atoms don't count, you can donate your kidney also!

Because when Jenny A breaks apart into component atoms, it's not a slow replacement of atoms maintaining a sense of consciousness. There's no longer continuous history. Jenny A is gone. That she is replicated as Jenny A1 would be of no difference to those who know Jenny A. It's not a difference they would be able to discern. But Jenny A is still gone.

If it helps try it this way: Suppose the transporter malfunctions and produces Jenny A1 and Jenny A2 simultaneously. They would not be each other thinking in duplicate, even if they would, at least initially, think very similar thoughts. Therefore because neither of them is the other, neither is Jenny A.

Cloning, is not immortality. Multiple copies of the same book, are different physical objects. Burn one and it's gone. It doesn't become the other physical books.

Yes but during clinical death you can die for a few minutes and there's nothing holding your consciousness there either and it's for a longer period of time than the startrek transporter. Despite all you rise again and feel like it's still you.