 ... 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
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 392 pages
...can represent, as one and the same, a fact of consciousness and the oscillation of a nerve-molecule. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable b," says Professor Tyndall. " No b Address to the Physical and Mathematical Section of the British... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1883 - 528 pages
...in particu' lar, molecular movements of the brain — and consciousuess. Says Professor 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 occur simultaneously,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...mind ? No matter. What is matter ? Never mind. What is the soul ? It is immaterial. — Thomas Hood. The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. — John Tyndall. What I object to in Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as... | |
 | 1886 - 508 pages
...materialism, with anything like an authoritative utterance adverse to the former; acknowledging that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." "Science is mute here," says the modern "master of words;" but, as if fearing an inference of a sort... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 394 pages
...represent, as one and the same, a fact of consciousness and the oscillation of a nerve-molecule. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable b," says Professor Tyndall. " No b Address to the Physical and Mathematical Section of the British... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1883 - 524 pages
...— in particular, molecular movements of the brain — and consciousness. Says Professor 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 occur simultaneously,... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 604 pages
...address before the mathematical and physical section of the British Association in 1868 he says : " 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 pages
...expressed what they have seen in language as clear as their vision. Professor Tyndall writes : The pa4kge from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular a<tion in the brain occur simultaneously,... | |
 | S. Sandaram Iyer - 1883 - 120 pages
...The History of Creation, Vol. I, p. 32. I! Ibid, p. 324. IF Fragments of Science, Vol. I, pp. 26-7, " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousnesses inconceivable as a result of mechanics. I do not think the materialist Is entitled... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1883 - 168 pages
...so great a mystery that no stndy can unravel it. The following are the words of Professor Tyndall: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts ot consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in... | |
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