 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1923 - 860 lehte
...matter. With the former, they admit, physical science cannot deal. 'The passage,' says Professor Tyndall, 'from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Consciousness, they assert, is a function of the brain, as motion is a function of the muscles. As... | |
 | James Hugh Ryan - 1924 - 426 lehte
...Association at Norwich — • Rudolf Eucken: His Philosophy and Influence, quoted by Meyrick Booth, p. 66: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiments of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from one to the other.... | |
 | James Hugh Ryan - 1924 - 426 lehte
...brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiments of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and sense so expanded... | |
 | Angus Stewart Woodburne - 1926 - 314 lehte
...understood today. They believed in a dualism between the physical and psychical. Tyndall, eg, said, ' the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Consequently, the smooth working of the evolutionary hypothesis in their judgement demanded that consciousness... | |
 | 1876 - 794 lehte
...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...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." s An unseen world consisting of purely... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 lehte
...other is subjective, and neither can be explained in terms of the other."* Tyndall assures us that the "passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" Huxley agrees with his learned brother in this ; he " knows nothing whatever and never hopes to know... | |
 | 1882 - 1028 lehte
...expressed what they have seen in language as clear as their vision. Professor Tyndall writes : — The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...definite thought and a definite molecular action in the Drain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of... | |
 | Josef Brožek - 1984 - 348 lehte
...Tyndall), biologists (TH Huxley), and physiologists (Du Bois-Reymond), stressing, as did Tyndall, that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" (p. 40). Having discussed Hermann Lotze's theory of local signs and their role in the development of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 670 lehte
...most ordinary intellectual exercises'1 (p. 216). He quotes with approval Prof. Tyndall's words that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," &c. (p. 212); but not content to accept the two as correlated facts insusceptible of further simplification,... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 lehte
...I think, I love'; but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem?" — and thus answers: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
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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... 
