...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,...

...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...

...a physical condition and a psychical state, the one did not in any true sense explain the other. As Tyndall said : " There is no fusion possible between...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." THE THEORIES OF THE NANCY SCHOOL. It is difficult to condense the views of the so-called Nancy school,...

...Mind, upon a strictly and purely physical basis. Tyndall, the great English scientist, truthfully said, "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 of the brain occur simultaneously,...

...dogma of ' thanatism.' What Professor Tyndall wrote a quarter of a century ago remains as true as ever: The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as the result of mechanics. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...

...physical. Dr. Tyndall spoke the language of Dualism when he said in oft -quoted words that there was " no passage from the physics of the Brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness." There is indeed " no passage," if we begin with Matter. But if we begin with Spirit, of which matter...

...Scribners; Sandford, "Experimental Psychology," Heath ; Waldstein, " The Subconscious Self," Scribners ; Bramwell, " Hypnotism," Lippincott ; Sidis, " Psychology...is a line of investigation which cannot be taken up hi any superficial way. This confession of ignorance is in fact a great step toward a higher knowledge....

...principle acts through its material coefficient and is reacted upon by it, we are not able to say. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," says Mr Tyndall. He means, of course, that we cannot explain it in any physical way: and this is a...

...the causal connection between mind and body, is at bottom insoluble to man. If, as Tyndall said,1 " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable, the reverse passage from the changes of consciousness to changes of our physical organism is just as...

...never from this assert the presence or predict the advent of mind. Thus Tyndall has justly said that " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as a result of mechanics. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated...