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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... "
Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory Studies - Page 5
by David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 141 pages
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The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined

Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 pages
...the following passage from Dr. Tyndall shows the importance which both attach to the division : — ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the '...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite niole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...
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The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris ..., Volume 13

1879 - 460 pages
...organism included. Dr. Calderwood also quotes with approval (p. 212) the dictum of Prof. Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" — a view which can only be true if consciousness is outside of brain, as one material thing is outside...
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Anti-theistic theories. Baird lect., 1877

Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pages
...retracted, and which he will find it hard to refute, should he wish to do so — when he wrote : " 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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The Relations of Mind and Brain

Henry Calderwood - 1879 - 510 pages
...inquiry must impress -all who study the relations of brain and mind. Professor Tyndall has said — " 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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Faith and Rationalism: With Short Supplementary Essays on Related Topics

George Park Fisher - 1879 - 200 pages
...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 soul is as insoluble, as it was in the presoientific...
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Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877

Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pages
...retracted, and which he will find it hard to refute, should he wish to do so — when he wrote : " 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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The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined

Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 pages
...the following passage from Dr. Tyndall shows the importance which both attach to the division : — ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the '...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite mole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...
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Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and ..., Volume 2

John Tyndall - 1879 - 474 pages
...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...
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Philosophy Historical and Critical: By André Lefèvre. Tr. with an ...

André Lefèvre - 1879 - 632 pages
...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...
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The new truth and the old faith, by a scientific layman

New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...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...
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