 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 558 lehte
...But how the two things are related is still a mystery. Professor Tyndall remarked, nine years ago : " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why."* Mr. John Fiske says : " We know of mind... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 lehte
...consciousness is unthinkable, (¿ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in tho brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we know not why." (Scicntißc M'iten'alism, Am. ed., p. 117.)... | |
 | James Martineau - 1877 - 222 lehte
...of feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced " unthinkable ; " " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements "nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 696 lehte
...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...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ nor apparently... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 lehte
...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 corresponding...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ nor apparently... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
