 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 lehte
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 lehte
...srtrprised should his meaning be misapprehended. We must, however, accept the explicit statements that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," and that " the chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Physical and... | |
 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 lehte
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 lehte
...And so long as the most advanced physicists are constrained to admit, with Professor Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," the theory of a separate and spiritual soul, in some way — to us mysterious, but, for aught we know,... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1876 - 330 lehte
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association * * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness ia unthinkable (p. 117). * * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought,... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 lehte
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association.* * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable (p. 117).* * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought as exercised... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 lehte
...Tyndall's famous admissions that "^molecular groupings and molecular motions explain nothing ; " that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " and that, if love were known to be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the molecules... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 642 lehte
...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in ils modern form as it was in the prescieutific ages." " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.'' (Fragments of Science, 110.) True, the manner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
 | 1879 - 460 lehte
...organism included. Dr. Calderwood also quotes with approval (p. 212) the dictum of Prof. Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" — a view which can only be true if consciousness is outside of brain, as one material thing is outside... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1879 - 200 lehte
...process of reasoning from one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." " The problem of the connection of the body and soul is as insoluble, as it was in the presoientific... | |
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... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness... 
