[mickeypi]

Yes, and if we actually had a way to disassemble and reassemble humans, the reassembled beings would tell you that the experiment works and their consciousness goes back to their first memories as a child. But the disassembled person would have been destroyed and therefore unable to share their opinion on the matter.

[dietrichepp]

This dodges the question. The question is not whether the original is destroyed, but whether it matters.

[mickeypi]

Sorry, that was intended to be implied. The original would say that it matters to them but to any observer it does not.