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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... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 460
1868
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Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays ...

John Tyndall - 1871 - 436 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays ...

John Tyndall - 1871 - 438 pages
...facts of consciousness is unthinkable, ranted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular tion in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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Half Hours with Modern Scientists, Volume 1

1871 - 318 pages
...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...intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the "'hich would enable us to pass by a process f "-om the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together,...
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The Catholic Record, Volumes 1-2

1871 - 850 pages
...asks for a little more precision. How does consciousness infuse itself intO4 the problem ? Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these p'.iysical processes connected...
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All the Year Round, Volume 6

1871 - 632 pages
...properly asks for a little more precision. How does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected...
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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pages
...this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable. (Granted 輑 ֓ ~k W k > 0 R 6 x " VzN z ? / @dF 0zfD L \ ~P@e 虔1 ` h 0 # x ice do not posses» tit« intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of Che organ, which would...
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Autopaedia: Or, Instructions on Personal Education: Designed for Yound Men

James McCrie - 1871 - 652 pages
...soul ; and teaches in reference to the connection of the body and soul, and their mutual action, " that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously." In remarking on this representation of the connection of body and soul, and on the position of Materialists,...
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American Presbyterian Review

Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 pages
...of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action of the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rndiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon...
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Scientific use of the imagination and other essays

John Tyndall - 1872 - 104 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 8

1875 - 884 pages
...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...enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other. They appear together, but we do vat know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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