The Brain View. The simplest and most immediately plausible description of what has happened in the transplant case is that I have gone with the brain. And if I go with my brain, it would seem that I am not an animal.17 This should be especially apparent when we stipulated that the empty-headed body left behind survives. That body would seemingly continue its “organic life”, but lacking a cortex it will not be able to be a person.18 Conversely, the brain which gets moved around has, either actually or potentially, all my person-specific faculties, it has them for the same reason I have them now, namely it creates them and is the locus of their persistence through time. Now, if I go with the brain, then I may be either the brain itself, or something else to do with it.19 The Brain View is that I am the brain itself. The Brain View articulated in this way is most clearly defined in the Animalist liter- ature itself – x.x. Xxxxx (2016a). Yet the view is most famously attributed to Xxxxx Xxxxxx (2012). For his part, however, Xxxxxx’x “narrow, brain-based psychological 17At least unless the whole animal goes with the brain, again, as argued by Xxxxxx (2016). See below (p. 52).
