From Iain Petrie
Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland argues that it can be difficult to accept that “you’re just your brain” (30 November, p 30). So it would seem. When she says, “I’ve made my peace with my brain,” it rather suggests that she regards herself as an entity distinct from her brain.
Even saying “my brain has made peace with itself” would imply, through the use of the possessive determiner “my”, that there is not a one-to-one identity relation between self and brain. Perhaps the best phrase would have been “this brain is at peace with itself”.
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
