 | John Christopher Draper - Science - 1873 - 372 pages
...example, can say, I feel, I think, I love j but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other. " Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated with a right-handed spiral... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...Materialism," he points out that the p?.ssage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding fact of consciousness is unthinkable. " Granted that a...possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudir of the organs which would enable u diment organs which would enable us to pass, by a process... | |
 | 1873 - 610 pages
...corresponding fact of consciousness is unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a defmite mole' eular action in' the brain occur simultaneously, we do not...intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of ' the organs which would enable us to pass, by a process of ' reasoning, from the one to the other. They... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 626 pages
...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." (Fragments of Science, 1111.) True, tinmanner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Unitarian churches - 1873 - 348 pages
...brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the 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. Were our minds and senses so expanded strengthened and illuminated as... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 610 pages
...terialism,' he points out that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding fact of consciousness is unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite mole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not ' possess the intellectual organ, nor... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...between these two closely connected sets of facts ; those, namely, of nervous force and consciousness. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...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,... | |
 | England - 1874 - 796 pages
...soar in a vacuum the moment we seek to comprehend the connection between them." And again elsewhere :* "Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organs, nor apparently any rudiment of the organs, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - Materialism - 1874 - 178 pages
...errors of systematic Ma" terialism may paralyze the energies and de" stroy the beauty of a life." " The passage from the physics of the brain "to the corresponding facts of consciousness," says TYNDALL, "is unthinkable. ... On both "sides of the zone here assigned to the materi" alist he... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...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...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." — TYNDALL, Address to the... | |
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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... 
