 ... 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
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 pages
...And so long as the most advanced physicists are constrained to admit, with Professor Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," the theory of a separate and spiritual soul, in some way — to us mysterious, but, for aught we know,... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1876 - 326 pages
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association * * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable (p. 117). * * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 pages
...srtrprised should his meaning be misapprehended. We must, however, accept the explicit statements that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," and that " the chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Physical and... | |
 | Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - 320 pages
...knowledge. They may moderate their zeal by reflecting upon the involuntary confession of Prof. Tyndall : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " or, upon the friendly warning of Dr. Bray : " There is no bridge from physics to metaphysics —... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 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 ;... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 414 pages
...the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association in 1868, wherein he declared that " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1876 - 816 pages
...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 defmite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...regarding the world to come. This looks very much like a contradiction. After having told us that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," you would have us suppose that nevertheless " pure intellect," untroubled by hopes and fears of a world... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 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 ;... | |
 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 pages
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;... | |
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