Animals have souls. They are living beings too. Their souls simply are not immortal, and do not allow intentional action.
Everything that is alive has a soul, otherwise, we'd have a case of matter in self-motion. Matter does not move on its own (Newton's First Law), but must have motion imparted to it by an outside actor. In the case of living things, this outside actor is God, who imparts life and motion via the joining of the soul (anima - the animating principal of living things) to the body (otherwise inert matter).
I see. So if that form of teleportation did divorce the soul from the body, plants, animals and people would all arrive dead. I reckon you could still send robots this way to do your exploring.
Like I said I think maybe the ‘beaming’ form of travel isn’t true teleportation, because the beam still has to travel through space.
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