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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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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

John Caird - 1880 - 412 pages
...appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story." " The passage," says Mr. Tyndall, " from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." But if we reflect for a moment on the two propositions, first, that mind or mental activity is a mode...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...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 couVOL. iv. sciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...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 conVOL. IV. scionsn ess is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action...
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The Catholic literary circular

414 pages
...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 is unthinkable." Modern philosophers by their exoteric researches have worked admirably within their own province, and...
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Memoir of the rev. Thomas Allin

Samuel Hulme - 1881 - 292 pages
...consciousness, or life. To use the words of the most audacious speculative materialist of the present day : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 12

1882 - 1050 pages
...expressed what they have seen in language as clear as their vision. Professor Tyndall writes : — 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 Student's Handbook of Philosophy: Psychology

B. F. Cocker - 1882 - 452 pages
...We should be just as far as ever from the explanation of psychical phenomena by material conditions. "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 science of man

Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite.* Dr. Tyndall, however, says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Why so ? Of course that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think how...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 35; Volume 43; Volume 65

1883 - 830 pages
...can tell. Science is mute as to the exact relations of physical and mental forces. Says Tyndall : " 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 occurs simultaneously,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 37

1883 - 884 pages
...have expressed what they have seen in language as clear as their vision. Professor Tyndall writes : 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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