 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882
...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
...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 Broþek, Josef M. Brozek - 1984 - 333 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
...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 - 1506 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,... | |
 | Frank H. Tainter - 1997 - 843 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. 48 Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1998 - 588 lehte
...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...intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the orgau, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other.... | |
 | William Seager - 1999 - 306 lehte
...around for a long time; a clear formulation is given by John Tyndall (as quoted by William James). 'The passage from the physics of the brain to the...enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other' (as quoted in James 1890/1950, p 147, from Tyndall 1 879). As Thomas Huxley put it,... | |
 | Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari - 2005 - 349 lehte
...Physiology", the primary objection to interactionism made little progress. In 1871, John Tyndall wrote "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not posses the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass,... | |
 | Abraham Myerson - 2005 - 416 lehte
...relationship of mind (thought and consciousness) to body. He quotes the "lucky" paragraph from Tyndall, "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness ia unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur... | |
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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... 
