...physically," he draws attention to the following passage from the nineteenth-century scientist John Tyndall: 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. (Tyndall 1868; quoted in Block et al. 1997,...

...paragraph which has beea quoted so often that every one knows it by heart: "The passage from the physios of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness...enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other." I Or in this other passage : " We can trace the development of a nervous system...

...paragraph which has beea quoted so often that every one knows it by heart: "The passage from the physios of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness...enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other." I Or in this other passage : " We can trace the development of a nervous system...

...it a function of itself. Matter is not by any means a sufficient cause of mind; even Tyndall said: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occurs simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ nor apparently any rudiment of an organ...