Title: Paul and Patricia Churchland’s Philosophical Marriage | The New Yorker
Headings: 
Two Heads
A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem.

Content: Paul sometimes thinks of Pat and himself as two hemispheres of the same brain—differentiated in certain functions but bound together by tissue and neuronal pathways worn in unique directions by shared incidents and habit. This is not a fantasy of transparency between them: even one’s own mind is not transparent to oneself, Paul believes, so to imagine his wife’s brain joined to his is merely to exaggerate what is actually the case—two organisms evolving into one in a shared shell. “It’s funny the way your life is your life and you don’t know any other life,” Pat says. “ I don’t know what it would have been like if I’d been married to—”
“A patent lawyer?” “Something like that. It’s hard for me to imagine.” “I think the two of us have been, jointly, several orders of magnitude more successful than at least I would have been on my own,” Paul says. “ I’d like to understand that better than I do; I presume it’s got something to do with the brain.