 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 916 pages
...consciousness is unthinkable, (¿ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in tho brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we know not why." (Scicntißc M'iten'alism, Am. ed., p. 117.)... | |
 | James Martineau - Religion - 1877 - 222 pages
...of feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced " unthinkable ; " " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements "nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1877 - 696 pages
...think, I love ; ' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? " And thus answers : "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ nor apparently... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1877 - 688 pages
...think, I love ; ' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? " And thus answers : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ nor apparently... | |
 | Joseph Cook - Biology - 1877 - 370 pages
...Tyndall's famous admissions that "^molecular groupings and molecular motions explain nothing ; " that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " and that, if love were known to be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the molecules... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - Religion and science - 1877 - 426 pages
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association.* * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable (p. 117).* * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought as exercised... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 192 pages
...great a mystery that no study can unravel it. The following are the words of Professor Tyndall :-— " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...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 mind and senses so expanded as... | |
 | Alfred Wilhelm Martin - Future life - 1916 - 232 pages
...from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable"; that "while a definite thought and a definite molecular action...simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other"; that "the chasm... | |
 | Willard Chamberlain Selleck - Theology - 1916 - 152 pages
...process of reasoning from one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." "The problem of the connection of the body and the soul is as insoluble as it was in the pre-scientific... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - Philosophy - 1916 - 312 pages
...reasoning from the knowledge of the brain acquired by physicists and physiologists to consciousness. ' ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Has not the problem of the mind-body relation been wrongly put ? When we assert that consciousness... | |
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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... 
