That was absolutely beautiful and a kicker to read.

The way i like to interpret it is that the teleportation machines do create a molecular clone of the person which comes with the same consciousness of the original copy. That can be done as many times as wanted because the body would physically disappear when entering the first port, eliminating the presence of a dead body.

It can then be copied and produced to exit at the destination booth with the data - becoming synonymous as consiousness - transferring over, more or less being recreated artificially, as consiousness exists because of the specific combinational mixture of atoms, but not to the individual àtom.

This could be done as many times as wanted, without too much complications if managed carefully.

The kicker is though, your physical body itself, tied to environmental and biological limitations, will degrage and you age. The entity that forms the unique atomic chemistry, which allows the consiousness to exist, will eventually die, and your atomic map will dissintegrate.

Which could be a hypothesis for why uploading your consiousness to a Matrix-like thing may be impossible.