... 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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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