 | John Tyndall - 1879
...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. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action... | |
 | André Lefèvre - 1879 - 598 lehte
...address to the physical section of the British Association, which has become famous, confesses that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is rxTHiXKABLK." The rest of the passage, which is extremely instructive and most satisfactory to the... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1879 - 188 lehte
...apparently, any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a 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."... | |
 | William Wallace - 1880 - 272 lehte
...the relation to the physics of the brain, the case is otherwise. " Granted," says the same writer,1 " that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other." If we have rightly understood Epicurus, he has simply ignored the ego and consciousness,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1880 - 395 lehte
...a thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the organ,...phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but ive do not know why." In 1875, reviewing Martineau in the Popular Science Monthly for December, Tyndall... | |
 | New truth - 1880
...instrument of research is itself the object of investigation." Dr. Tyndall has also admitted "that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unattainable," and Professor Clerk Maxwell records his belief that "no new discoveries can make the... | |
 | Willard Chamberlain Selleck - 1916 - 140 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 the soul is as insoluble as it was in the pre-scientific... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1916 - 283 lehte
...reasoning from the knowledge of the brain acquired by physicists and physiologists to consciousness. ' ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Has not the problem of the mind-body relation been wrongly put ? When we assert that consciousness... | |
 | Alfred Wilhelm Martin - 1916 - 202 lehte
...collisions have resulted in the world of Nature and of Man. When Tyndall made his famous declarations that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable"; that "while a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1917
...all the great men of science, as of the greatest thinkers of this and the past ages, in saying that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of Consciousness is unthinkable. Were our minds and senses so ... illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of... | |
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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... 
