In the movie “The Fly” w/ Jeff Goldblum he uses baboons as experimental subjects for his teleporter, but the monkeys kept exploding. He figured out that while the transporter could transport inorganic material w/ no problem, it simple kept messing up anything that was alive. His layman’s explanation was that the teleprter didn’t know what alive was. So he puts one steak in the transporter and cooks it, along w/ a non-transported steak. The transported steak tasted like shit. He needed to find an algorithm to get it to understand meat or anything organic.
Something like that, it’s been a few years since watching it last. It’s a good movie, check it out if you get a chance.