 Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be;...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 641871Full view - About this book
 | Paul Carus - 1892 - 760 pages
...rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other : the chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." Consciousness is something sui generis. It is neither matter nor energy. It may accompany the transformations... | |
 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1893 - 540 pages
...motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought...chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still be intellectually impassable."1 Units of being all of whose modes of changing are sensations and thoughts,... | |
 | 1893 - 542 pages
...motions, all the groupings, all the electrical discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought...processes connected with the facts of consciousness?'" The office of memory is twofold. In the first place, it must receive and fix impressions, with their time-signs.... | |
 | 1893 - 544 pages
...motions, all the groupings, all the electrical discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought...processes connected with the facts of consciousness?'" The office of memory is twofold. In the first place, it must receive and fix impressions, with their time-signs.... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1893 - 214 pages
...were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should still be as far as ever from the solution of the problem...processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " J Since then we do not know how brain and sentience are connected, we certainly cannot know that... | |
 | James Orr - 1893 - 586 pages
...we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges . . . the chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." 2 Article on "Mr. Darwin's Critics," in Contemporary Review, Nov. 1871, I'. 464. Mr. Spencer expresses... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1894 - 608 pages
...intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, — we should probably be as far as ever from the solution of the problem,...phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." Materialism presents itself as an intelligible theory of the universe, and yet it has not succeeded... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1894 - 470 pages
...motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought...as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are the?e physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes... | |
 | 1894 - 952 pages
...states of thought and feeling, we should • "Principles of Psychology." vol. L §§ 62, 63, p. 158. be as far as ever from the solution of the problem,...processes connected with the facts of consciousness '{ ' . ... In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised by... | |
 | 1875 - 800 pages
...motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought...intellectually impassable. Let the consciousness of fata, for example, be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the molecules of the brain, and... | |
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