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Well... Given that I am self-aware, I would not enter the second machine.
For simplicity, let's call the current me "1", and the transported me "2".
The reason that I wouldn't use it, is that I would basically be killing 1 (current me), in the hope that I would become 2 (other me) on the other side. I can't know - although 2 might be a perfect copy of 1, my self-awareness might not be transported, leaving 1 dead. (If you want to be religious about it, you could call this self-awareness my soul.) This would make 2 someone else; i.e. not 1.
The first machine would be physically transporting my body to the other side, and that somehow feels different. I might be convinced to use this one.
Now, this whole thread boils down to one simple question: are we more than just physical. I.e. is there something more than those atoms and energy levels that would need to be transported, or is that it? And of course, this then leads to the whole religious question of whether there is a soul or not.
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