A thought experiment on consciousness
arXiv Preprint Archive October 30, 2003 Germano D'Abramo
The mind-body problem can be reformulated using a brain duplication argument. If consciousness arises solely from the physical organization of matter and energy, then duplicating a brain would require duplicating not just the brain itself but also its extensive interdependence with the entire surrounding physical world to produce the same conscious experience. This suggests that consciousness may depend on a broader physical context beyond the isolated brain.