But we are not talking about mitosis, so we don't need to go there. We are taking about a machine that assembles atoms on a remote planet. None of the atoms come from your current body. What magic would transfer your consciousness into this clone?

> But we are not talking about mitosis, so we don't need to go there

I'm probing to get a better understanding of your belief system. How does it hold up under symmetrical cloning?

> What magic would transfer your consciousness into this clone?

I'll label:

* IM: Immaterial "me" - a "soul", impacted by the physical. May impact the physical or just be an observer depending on variant of dualism

* PM: Physiological "me" - personality, memories, train of thought, currently physically instantiated as a brain

From what I understand, you believe there's an IM controlling a PM, and the IM is a different kind of stuff that would not be cloned. On cloning of PM you think this happens (at the instant of cloning):

    IM    New soul
    |     |
    PM    PM

You ask "Would you control both bodies, see through both set of eyes" because you thought sunaurus is proposing this happens:

       IM 
      /  \
    PM    PM

Whereas I (and I think sunaurus) don't believe in an IM. We think two physically identical persons really are identical, including whatever we'd call consciousness, so it's more like:

    PM    PM

Others may believe that all is not necessarily physical but does at least supervene on the physical (so identical PM has identical IM arising from it):

    IM    IM
    |     |
    PM    PM

I can't seem to be able to reply to your comment below, but thanks for the clear illustration. I don't disagree with PM PM; I don't believe in souls. What I do believe in is that there is a quality of consciousness that is linked to the PM - what makes you see through your own eyes and not others. That quality does not seem transferable, in that bodily possession is not a thing.

If you posit that teleportation is equivalent to spaceship, and that a single consciousness cannot inhabit two bodies, then what is your hypothesis about the more-or-less instant transfer of that quality to a remote planet's newly created clone?

> I don't believe in souls

Consider IM to be any immaterial "self" that you believe wouldn't be included in the clone - doesn't have to be a soul as various religions may conceptualize.

> and that a single consciousness cannot inhabit two bodies

I believe there could be two bodies with identical personalities/memories/train-of-thought/etc. (whatever we label as consciousness) at some instant, but they would diverge due to different environments and not have any kind of special link between them.

> what is your hypothesis about the more-or-less instant transfer of that quality to a remote planet's newly created clone?

In my view it's just included in the clone - there's nothing extra that hasn't been cloned that needs to be transferred afterwards. If you totally clone an ocean, it has the same waves.