 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1870 - 810 pages
...we do not Bee where the materialism can give the 86s irov irr£t. As Professor Tyndall truly says: 'The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Even Professor Huxley speaks of the wellfounded doctrine that life is the cause, and not the consequence... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...will detlect a magnetic; needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable,...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable-, (i ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,... | |
 | 1868 - 596 pages
...direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt аз to the final mechanical solution of the problem; but the passage from the physics of the brain... | |
 | Missions - 1869 - 802 pages
...say, / feel, I think, I live, but how does this consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? ... The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. We do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable... | |
 | Anthropology - 1869 - 688 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite."* Dr. Tyudall, however, says, "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Of course that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain, can never think how it is... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1869 - 862 pages
...direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the coses differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and mat we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...Wundt and others, but by Spencer and Tyndall even. Kant, Spencer, du Bois-Reymond and Tyndall hold that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Haeckel says that when certain parts of the brain are diseased or affected, the corresponding sense... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 880 pages
...minds. Mr. Wallace himself quotes with approval the words of Professor Tyndall, that on any hypothesis " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Why then lose confidence in a theory of organic davelopment because it seems to halt on the threshold... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Knowledge - 1871 - 606 pages
...direction will de0ect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable,...; but the passage from the physics of the brain to tht corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 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...definite thought, and a definite molecular action of the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rndiment... | |
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... 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, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor.... 
