If you were teleported across the room, would you still be 'you'?

Similar to [this askReddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9klii/if_you_cut_yourself_in_half_and_both_sides_lived/).

I have had this conversation with numerous people. Some people just don't understand the question, but I think it's a pretty interesting thought experiment.

Ok here we go:

You have teleportation technology. Based on my rudimentary understanding of our current teleportation technology, the best we can do is 'copy' things over a distance (i.e transfer information about a particle and replicate it in another particle elsewhere). Now imagine we've scaled this up so we can teleport animals, objects, whatever. Effectively what happens is that the object enters the teleporter, is copied to the 'exit' point, then the original is destroyed (don't ask why, just for the sake of ensuring this isn't a cloning question). In all respects, the new object is completely identical. All of the particles are the same, it has the same chemical makeup, same characteristics. The only thing which is different about the new object is it's position.

Now imagine YOU go through the teleporter. Everything about you is copied to the new location. All of the particles, every last bit of information which makes you up as a person is replicated into your copy, and then BAM - the original is wiped out.

Would 'you' cease to exist when the teleporter vaporised you? Or would copying everything about you allow your consciousness as it currently stands to live on in the copy. The interesting thing I think is that the 'new' you would remember walking into the teleporter and appearing at the exit point, as they would have your memories of entering. However, they don't remember being vaporised, because it didn't happen to them. They believe they are you. You can ask them anything and they will respond exactly as you would have. There is no way for them, or anyone else, to say whether your consciousness has transferred to the copy - because they will have all of your memories and personality and will know no different.

So what do you think would happen? Would it just be a convincing clone, and you and your consciousness would cease to exist while the doppleganger took over your life? Or would your consciousness live on in the copied version of yourself?

I guess this can also be construed as 'what makes you, you?' - i.e is your consciousness seperate from your physical being?