 | 1875 - 844 pages
...comprehend the connection between them." And again elsewhere : * " Granted that adefinite thought 2nd a definite molecular action in the brain occur 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... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1875 - 440 pages
...have said, some remarkable reflections of the great English physicist, Tyndall. 'Granted;' says he, 'that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simulta neously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1876 - 656 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 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 minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | John Fiske - Future life - 1876 - 372 pages
...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...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." -f An unseen world consisting of purely... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1876 - 706 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 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 minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | James Martineau - Materialism - 1876 - 76 pages
...phenomena 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... | |
 | James Martineau - Materialism - 1876 - 100 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1876 - 1022 pages
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1876 - 816 pages
...love,' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ?" And here is the answer : — " U J àU (] v "f So b p^6 - t 7WJ: U 8 o)Bҧ D v f G _Ê K1'd̷hv V Ђg M A 6 N u C defmite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously ; we do not possess... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Religion - 1876 - 414 pages
...the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association in 1868, wherein he declared that " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the organ,... | |
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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... 
