 ... 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...  The Physical Basis of Immortality - Page 234by Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1885 - 998 pages
...explanation of thought is as utterly unthinkable as ever. " The passage," says Professor Tyndall, " from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as a result of mechanics." Even were our minds and senses vastly " expanded, strengthened,... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Exell - 1885 - 606 pages
...explanation of thought is as utterly unthinkable as ever. " The passage," says Professor Tyndall, " from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness, is inconceivable as a result of mechanics." Even were our minds and senses vastly " expanded, strengthened,... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - 1886 - 360 pages
...imagination, can clear it. High authorities in science authoiize- such a statement. Mr. 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 ;... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1886 - 128 pages
...of mind. In his address to the Physical Section of the British Association in 1868, Tyndall said: " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granting that a definite thought and a definite molecular action occur in the brain simultaneously,... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pages
...materialism no good, for Prof. Tyndall himself admits that " molecular motion explains nothing. . . The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Accordingly, matter has only two essential properties, impenetrability and extension, other properties... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1887 - 350 pages
...acutest of the agnostics. Call to mind, eg, some remarks of Tyndall's which I have already quoted : " 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,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1888 - 770 pages
...generally recognized by the greatest thinkers. The English physicist, John Tyndall (1820- ), says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." " The English anatomist and biologist, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825- ), observes : " How it is that anything... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 856 pages
...all the great men of science, as of the greatest thinkers of this and the past ages, in saying that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of Consciousness is unthinkable. Were our minds and senses so ... illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of... | |
 | 1905 - 778 pages
...opinions of some of the world's greatest scientists upon this very subject. Professor Tyndall, eg, says: "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,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1905 - 146 pages
...conscious and THE PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW I2i the voluntary we are flung upon facts not known in physics. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness," says Professor Tyndall as quoted by Dr. Martineau, "is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought... | |
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