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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays - Page 359
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 384 lehte
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The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates

Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Guven Guzeldere - 1997 - 884 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...
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On Intelligence

Hippolyte Taine - 1998 - 596 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....
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Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment

William Seager - 1999 - 322 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,...
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Depression and Dementia: Progress in Brain Research, Clinical Applications ...

Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari - 2005 - 376 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,...
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The Foundations of Personality

Abraham Myerson - 2005 - 417 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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Ignorance and Imagination : The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of ...

Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University Daniel Stoljar Senior Fellow - 2006 - 263 lehte
...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,...
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The Principles of Psychology, 1. köide

William James - 2007 - 709 lehte
...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...
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The Principles of Psychology, 1. köide

William James - 2007 - 709 lehte
...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...
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The Globe, 12–13. köide

William Henry Thorne - 1902
...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...
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