 | James Martineau - 1878 - 35 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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1878
...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in ils modern form as it was in the prescieutific ages." " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.'' (Fragments of Science, 110.) True, the manner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1879 - 455 lehte
...inquiry must impress -all who study the relations of brain and mind. Professor Tyndall has said — " 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. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879
...retracted, and which he will find it hard to refute, should he wish to do so — when he wrote : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomena to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 555 lehte
...retracted, and which he will find it hard to refute, should he wish to do so — when he wrote : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomena to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
 | Archibald Alexander Hodge - 1879 - 678 lehte
...("Athenaeum" for August 29, 1868) says: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding tacts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite...of reasoning, from the one phenomenon to the other. ... In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought as exercised by us has... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 460 lehte
...the following passage from Dr. Tyndall shows the importance which both attach to the division : — ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the '...unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite niole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do ' not possess the intellectual organ,... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 460 lehte
...the following passage from Dr. Tyndall shows the importance which both attach to the division : — ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the '...unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite mole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do ' not possess the intellectual organ, nor... | |
 | 1879
...organism included. Dr. Calderwood also quotes with approval (p. 212) the dictum of Prof. Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" — a view which can only be true if consciousness is outside of brain, as one material thing is outside... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1879 - 188 lehte
...process of reasoning from one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." " The problem of the connection of the body and soul is as insoluble, as it was in the presoientific... | |
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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... 
