... 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
| John Caird - 1880 - 412 pages
...appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story." " The passage," says Mr. Tyndall, " from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." But if we reflect for a moment on the two propositions, first, that mind or mental activity is a mode... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 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 conVOL. IV. scionsn ess is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action... | |
| Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 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 couVOL. iv. sciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action... | |
| 414 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." Modern philosophers by their exoteric researches have worked admirably within their own province, and... | |
| Samuel Hulme - 1881 - 292 pages
...consciousness, or life. To use the words of the most audacious speculative materialist of the present day : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,... | |
| 1882 - 1050 pages
...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 brain occur simultaneously,... | |
| B. F. Cocker - 1882 - 452 pages
...We should be just as far as ever from the explanation of psychical phenomena by material conditions. "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... | |
| William David Ground - 1883 - 392 pages
...can represent, as one and the same, a fact of consciousness and the oscillation of a nerve-molecule. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable b," says Professor Tyndall. " No b Address to the Physical and Mathematical Section of the British... | |
| 1886 - 508 pages
...materialism, with anything like an authoritative utterance adverse to the former; acknowledging that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." "Science is mute here," says the modern "master of words;" but, as if fearing an inference of a sort... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1883 - 524 pages
...— in particular, molecular movements of the brain — and consciousness. Says Professor 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,... | |
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