This is refuted by in-universe POV accounts. We have traveled through the transporter with several characters, and not once is their stream of consciousness or even vision broken.
Barclay even observes creatures slightly out of phase in the transport stream and manages to pull them in. (TNG, “Realm of Fear”)
I know it’s described as disassembling and reassembling, but in practice it looks more like they’re being adjusted out of phase, pushed to their location using the annular confinement beam, and resequenced into phase with the rest of the universe. This is what happens with Geordi and Ro in TNG, “The Next Phase.”
It doesn’t explain transporter clones or most transporter accidents, or even TNG, “Relics” but the transporter as a whole is kinda sorta space magic anyway.
This is refuted by in-universe POV accounts. We have traveled through the transporter with several characters, and not once is their stream of consciousness or even vision broken.
Barclay even observes creatures slightly out of phase in the transport stream and manages to pull them in. (TNG, “Realm of Fear”)
I know it’s described as disassembling and reassembling, but in practice it looks more like they’re being adjusted out of phase, pushed to their location using the annular confinement beam, and resequenced into phase with the rest of the universe. This is what happens with Geordi and Ro in TNG, “The Next Phase.”
It doesn’t explain transporter clones or most transporter accidents, or even TNG, “Relics” but the transporter as a whole is kinda sorta space magic anyway.