 ... 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 4601868Full view - About this book
 | Théodule Ribot - 1875 - 440 pages
...have said, some remarkable reflections of the great English physicist, Tyndall. 'Granted;' says he, 'that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simulta neously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 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...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,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1876 - 392 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...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." f An unseen world consisting of purely... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 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...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together,. but we do not know why." Moreover, philosophy teaches us that... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 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...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,... | |
 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 pages
...physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." But are we thus completely limited as to all intellectual possibility of ever relating... | |
 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 pages
...physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." But are we thus completely limited as to all intellectual possibility of ever relating... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1876 - 816 pages
...physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a defmite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain,...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,... | |
 | James Martineau - 1876 - 76 pages
...phenomena of feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced "unthinkable;" "we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements " nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 pages
...feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced " unthinkable ;" '• we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements "nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged... | |
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