 | Washington Gladden - 1891 - 266 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 pre-scientific... | |
 | Rev. William H. Campbell - 1891 - 348 lehte
...Even Tyndall, an infidel evolutionist, says: "I bow my head in the dust before the majesty of mind. The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as a result of mechanics." The effect is so infinitely greater than the cause that it... | |
 | 1892 - 822 lehte
...acknowledged, on all hands, that there is no common nature between consciousness and a nerve-motion, and that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," yet the prevailing habit of investigating the mind from the objective side constantly feeds the tendency... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 508 lehte
...conceivable, 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 is inconceivable as a result of mechanics. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1892 - 122 lehte
...form from whence this varied universe has sprung, and those in Scientific Materialism that confess " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness " to be " unthinkable," and that declare " molecular groupings and molecular motions " to be very far... | |
 | Frederic Henry Balfour - 1893 - 356 lehte
...people see in the influence of mind upon matter and matter upon mind? The professor Tyndall says that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Is it so now ? We feel with our minds, they say. True; for we cannot touch the tiniest spot of our... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1893 - 214 lehte
...necessity for pain in my 'Inspiration,' pp. 141-161. sciousness "before the dissolution of the body. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granting that a definite thought and a definite molecular action occur in the brain simultaneously,... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1893 - 134 lehte
...are associated with them. " They appear together," says Professor Tyndall, " but we do not know why. The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." The docenergy." oJ The "conservation of trine of the " conservation of energy "— that no amount of... | |
 | James Orr - 1893 - 586 lehte
...5, Du BoisReymond regards as insoluble. sets of facts, which require to be carefully kept apart. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness," says Professor Tyndall, " is unthinkable."1 "I know nothing, and never hope to know anything," says... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 lehte
...Professor Tyndall, who is eminent alike as a scientific observer and as a philosopher, admits that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of Consciousness is unthinkable. .... The chasm between the two classes of phenomena still remains intellectually impassible." The conditions... | |
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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... 
