...relationship of mind (thought and consciousness) to body. He quotes the "lucky" paragraph from Tyndall, " 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;...

...matter. With the former, they admit, physical science cannot deal. 'The passage,' says Professor Tyndall, 'from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Consciousness, they assert, is a function of the brain, as motion is a function of the muscles. As...

...Association at Norwich — • Rudolf Eucken: His Philosophy and Influence, quoted by Meyrick Booth, p. 66: "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,...

...understood today. They believed in a dualism between the physical and psychical. Tyndall, eg, said, ' the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Consequently, the smooth working of the evolutionary hypothesis in their judgement demanded that consciousness...

...other is subjective, and neither can be explained in terms of the other."* Tyndall assures us that the "passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" Huxley agrees with his learned brother in this ; he " knows nothing whatever and never hopes to know...

...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 is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;...

...expressed what they have seen in language as clear as their vision. Professor 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 Drain occur simultaneously,...

...Tyndall), biologists (TH Huxley), and physiologists (Du Bois-Reymond), stressing, as did Tyndall, that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" (p. 40). Having discussed Hermann Lotze's theory of local signs and their role in the development of...

...most ordinary intellectual exercises'1 (p. 216). He quotes with approval Prof. Tyndall's words that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," &c. (p. 212); but not content to accept the two as correlated facts insusceptible of further simplification,...

...I think, I love'; but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem?" — and thus answers: "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;...