| 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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