 ... 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 3by David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 141 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Brierley - 1913 - 304 pages
...These are truths too obvious for discussion. The best scientists frankly admit them. Says Tyndall : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as the result of mechanics. The problem of the connection of body and soul is as insoluble... | |
 | John Rougier Cohu - 1914 - 324 pages
...appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story." Tyndall says just the same thing: " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." l As a matter of fact, we shall see later that the gulf between matter and mind is not so unbridgeable... | |
 | Geoffrey Rhodes - 1915 - 340 pages
...subjective psychological phenomena. As I have already remarked, Professor TyndalPs contention, " that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," has to be ignored or forgotten, but it is no less true. When we see the extraordinary physical results... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1915 - 1002 pages
...; cf. also the well-known utterance in J. Tyndall's Address to tlie British Atancintion at Norwich ('the passage from the Physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is \mthinkoMr, ') and Huxley's similar admission (Cfl xviii. [1871] 443). s • On the Nature of Things-in-Themselves,'... | |
 | Alfred Wilhelm Martin - 1916 - 248 pages
...collisions have resulted in the world of Nature and of Man. When Tyndall made his famous declarations that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable"; that "while a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1916 - 312 pages
...reasoning from the knowledge of the brain acquired by physicists and physiologists to consciousness. ' ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Has not the problem of the mind-body relation been wrongly put ? When we assert that consciousness... | |
 | Willard Chamberlain Selleck - 1916 - 152 pages
...process of reasoning from one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." "The problem of the connection of the body and the soul is as insoluble as it was in the pre-scientific... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1917 - 428 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... | |
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