... 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
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 414 pages
...the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association in 1868, wherein he declared that " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 pages
...srtrprised should his meaning be misapprehended. We must, however, accept the explicit statements that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," and that " the chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Physical and... | |
| John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...think, I love," but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? ' And here is the answer : ' 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 ;... | |
| Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 pages
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 pages
...And so long as the most advanced physicists are constrained to admit, with Professor Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," the theory of a separate and spiritual soul, in some way — to us mysterious, but, for aught we know,... | |
| Albany Institute - 1876 - 326 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 that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised... | |
| 1893 - 564 pages
...thought is a mere ' function ' or a ' secretion ' of the brain, for Professor Tyndall tells us that ' the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable,' and all modern physiologists admit that though the brain process and the thought process arc synchronous... | |
| 1876 - 592 pages
...regarding the world to come. This looks very much like a contradiction. After having told us that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," you would have us suppose that nevertheless " pure intellect," untroubled by hopes and fears of a world... | |
| Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 pages
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;... | |
| John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 pages
...think, I love," but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? ' And here is the answer: ' 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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