 | Science - 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...enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other. They appear together, but we do vat know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | 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...is unthinkable. Granted that a definite 'thought, a definite molecular in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ,... | |
 | Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 388 pages
...brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiments of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...study of the nervous system." Dr. Tyndall (" Address on Scientific Materialism," Norwich) says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. The chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Professor Huxley says... | |
 | Theology - 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... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Aesthetics - 1872 - 592 pages
...thought or thought physical motion. ' The passage from the physics of the brain,' says Dr. Tyndall, ' to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Sermons, English - 1872 - 428 pages
...thought or thought physical motion. ' The passage from the physics of the brain,' says Dr. Tyndall, ' to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1873 - 672 pages
..."said of Hartley nearly seventy years ago, Professor Tyndall says of the Materialists of our day. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
 | John Hughlings Jackson - Brain - 1873 - 108 pages
...(Spencer, Psychology, Vol. i, p. 48.) Tyndall writes — " * * the passage from the physics of via the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, we know not why." This quotation is given by Lewes,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Unitarian churches - 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...intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of an organ which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from one phenomenon to the other.... | |
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... 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... 
