That's exactly what I was thinking! Running far too much into fandon, this holds also for the fictional 'pattern buffer'. It has to examine the original AND communicate that state back to the duplicate quick enough or the 'clone' will be inaccurate, maybe even enough to kill someone a la Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

They repeatedly treat the pattern like data.

Riker splits, Tuvix!, the one where the other doctor ages and gets de-aged in the transporter, the one where Scotty is stored in it for decades, etc.

It's also where the meme comes from how Star Trek transporers are actually suicide booths [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/is-beaming-down-in-st...