 ... 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
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite.* Dr. Tyndall, however, says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Why so ? Of course that that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1871 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 pages
...Section of the British Association at Norwich, in 1868, Professor Tyndall expressed himself as follows: '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,... | |
 | 1872 - 832 pages
...considered by the great majority of those most able to judge, as not only unsolved, but insoluble. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." It may be, and probably is, true that thought is accompanied by, and is dependent on, motions of the brain... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1872 - 102 pages
...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;... | |
 | 1875 - 884 pages
...think, I love,' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? " And here is the answer : "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 ;... | |
 | Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 396 pages
...demonstrable, is thinkable, and 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, a definite molecular in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 626 pages
...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." (Fragments of Science, 1111.) True, tinmanner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1873 - 348 pages
...they stand with bended head ; the spiritual facts their instruments do not touch. Tyndall 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,... | |
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