2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/225838The Mind-Body Problem, which constitutes the starting point for a large part of the speculations about consciousness and conscious experience, can be re-stated in an equivalent way, using the `brain duplication' argument described in this paper. If we assume that consciousness follows from a peculiar organization of physical matter and energy, namely that it does not transcend physical reality, then the brain duplication argument gives a possible interesting physical characterization of the mind: namely, a sort of extensive interdependence of the brain with the whole surrounding physical world in giving rise to consciousness.7 pages, one figure. Minor changes, updated references. Comments and suggestions are welcomeGeneral Physicstext