...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...

...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-, (i ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the "'hich would enable us to pass by a process f "-om the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together,...

...the prevalent systems of the day. All that I have said has been allowed clearly and unequivocally by Professor Tyndall.* "The passage from the physics...brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intel* Address before British Association, Aug. 1868. TTNDALL'S TESTIMONT. 109 lectual organ, nor apparently...

...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...

...Association at Norwich, in 1868. The following extract will show the position then taken. He says : — " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual...

...properly asks for a little more precision. How does consciousness infuse itself intO4 the problem ? Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these p'.iysical processes connected...