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I hate this comic. Your alarm clock is proof that you don't truly lose consciousness in the way this comic implies when you go to sleep.
Yeah, it's a weakness in the comic, but you can fix it by imagining being frozen (in a sci-fi way that doesn't form I've crystals that kill you) then thawed.
You'd awake just like from sleep and there would have been a period of true nothing in between.
Did you die and a new you was woken up? I say there is no “true you”. There's a body having your memories and behavior, thinking it's you and that's all that matters. There is no magic piece that actually gets loost when you get frozen or teleported. A you enters, a you leaves, so nobody died and nothing is lost.
There are no souls, there is no magic continuous bit that gets handed over to the next moment, there just the pattern, so as long as it persists, you are alive.