woodchipper suggests that each piece in the chipper is identifiable as it goes in, i.e. the carryover buffer size is large enough to identify pieces of the source.
I'm talking about a buffer size of 1 bit. Literally a 1 or a 0. It's as identifiable as a coin flip.
the reference never changed position in memory, so nothing actually happened during the teleportation process other than a re-labelling.
For real teleportation, that memory has to physically change position. I would do it gradually though, bit-by-bit, synchronized, and very fast.
The idea is that if you slow it down, you witness half-yourself getting destroyed exactly as you witness your other half getting created, with the only carry-over being a single 1 or a 0
It was a good insight into how the lightbulb dimming tech of the 80s/90s worked. Also why the dimmer switches back then were so dangerous with the capacitor likely just a few mm's away from the light switch which might not have been properly wired because UK homes back then didn't run a neutral back from the switch, but daisy-chained the switch and the bulb together and then ran the neutral back from the bulb
Or Trenitalia