All the arguments that teleporting doesn't kill you seem to be based off the assumption that we don't have souls and are just meat automatons, so they really put me off

>And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair

Guys, how DO we know that just going to sleep doesn't extinguish our consciousness to be replaced with a fresh one?