ABSTRACT
Patricia Smith Churchland and Paul Montgomery Churchland have recognised that neurophilosophy has the potential to ask some deep questions about the biological basis of human nature, and because of this, there is every likelihood that the discipline will develop into a major branch of neuroscience. In 1986, Patricia Smith Churchland published her first book Neurophilosophy, which attempted to provide an interface between neuroscience and philosophy. Partly to persuade philosophers that to comprehend the mind one must understand the brain, and partly to introduce neuroscientists to the rich array of philosophical problems that they may one day contribute to solving, Churchland focused, in large part, on the thorny issue of the mind-brain problem. Many philosophers are convinced that conscious processes will never be explained in neural terms and several famous "thought experiments" support their contention.
