... 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... Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory Studies - Page 5by David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 141 pagesFull view - About this book
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 pages
...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." (Fragments of Science, 1111.) True, tinmanner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
| Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...between these two closely connected sets of facts ; those, namely, of nervous force and consciousness. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously... | |
| Hermann Ulrici - 1874 - 178 pages
...errors of systematic Ma" terialism may paralyze the energies and de" stroy the beauty of a life." " The passage from the physics of the brain "to the corresponding facts of consciousness," says TYNDALL, "is unthinkable. ... On both "sides of the zone here assigned to the materi" alist he... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pages
...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 is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,... | |
| Alexander Winchell - 1875 - 44 pages
...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 thatthe growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised... | |
| 1875 - 822 pages
...the product and the organ it uses, they confound the one with the other. Says Professor Tyndall, " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. They appear together, but we do not know why. Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated... | |
| 1875 - 808 pages
...knowledge. They may moderate their zeal by reflecting upon the involuntary confession of Prof. Tyndall ! "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable "; or, upon the friendly warning of Dr . Bray : " There is no bridge from physics to metaphysics —... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...surprising self-confidence, as being determined, not only for the present, but for all time to come, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted (it is said) that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 820 pages
...the product and the organ it uses, they confound the one with the other. Says Professor Tyndall, " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. They appear together, but we do not know why. Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated... | |
| London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1875 - 268 pages
...say, I feel, I think, I love ; but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? . . . . The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;... | |
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