The glass is always full, it's just that some of what it's filled with is air.
What you're saying isn't the 'current best guess' though, it's a fringe theory which relies on some incredibly speculative concepts with no evidence to back them up (i.e. the assertion that, if you created another brain with the exact same configuration as your current brain then, your conscious experience would automatically transfer over to it. We have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, whereas the concept that the destruction of your brain results in your death is well supported by the available evidence).
For claiming that you are what your brain does, and the (implied) correlation that another identical brain would therefore continue to manifest an identical experience. All of this is entirely conjectural, we have no evidence one way or another.
Your caveat that you must be cut and pasted and not copied doesn't help your argument, in fact it does the opposite, because it is not theoretically impossible that two identical versions of "you" could exist concurrently.
Right, but even if everything did work as intended there is still the possibility that it might not have done, and that possibility helps us understand what is actually happening, which is that you are killed and a copy of you is created somewhere else. There is absolutely no reason to believe that your experience would magically transfer over to that copy.
You have absolutely no reason to believe that.
What happens if there's a malfunction in the machine and the copy is made at the other end without the original version being destroyed? Do you think you would experience both perspectives simultaneously?
Really? Why is that any stranger than Christians trading with non-Christians, or republics trading with monarchies?
Richard Dawkins once said children shouldn't read fairy stories because they encourage magical thinking, the man is a tool.
Who tf said anything about scientology?
The image that you posted, obviously.
It appears to claim that scientology was influenced by Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Taoism, which is a pretty ridiculous claim.
Fuck Paradox. Another great game franchised ruined by money hungry cunts.
My thoughts exactly. Oxygen Not Included too.