State-Based Transfer Without Spatial Translation: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Teleportation

Most discussions of teleportation and spatial displacement implicitly assume that physical entities must move through space in order to change location. This paper challenges that assumption by proposing a state-based framework in which teleportation is understood not as spatial translation, but as the transfer and reconfiguration of state. By treating existence as a configuration of relational and informational states rather than localized matter, spatial movement becomes a secondary or even unnecessary explanatory concept. On this view, numerical identity may be preserved through non-local state realization, even in the presence of phenomenal or temporal discontinuity. The proposed framework does not contradict established quantum teleportation protocols, but instead offers a metaphysical reinterpretation of their underlying assumptions. The aim of this work is not experimental verification, but conceptual clarification within the metaphysics of identity, philosophy of physics, and debates concerning emergent spacetime and information-based ontology.