 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - Immortality - 1876 - 336 pages
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1876 - 608 pages
...And so long as the most advanced physicists are constrained to admit, with Professor Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," the theory of a separate and spiritual soul, in some way — to us mysterious, but, for aught we know,... | |
 | Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - Immortality - 1876 - 336 pages
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;... | |
 | English periodicals - 1893 - 564 pages
...thought is a mere ' function ' or a ' secretion ' of the brain, for Professor Tyndall tells us that ' the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable,' and all modern physiologists admit that though the brain process and the thought process arc synchronous... | |
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1876 - 326 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... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1876 - 592 pages
...regarding the world to come. This looks very much like a contradiction. After having told us that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," you would have us suppose that nevertheless " pure intellect," untroubled by hopes and fears of a world... | |
 | Ransom Bethune Welch - Positivism - 1876 - 320 pages
...knowledge. They may moderate their zeal by reflecting upon the involuntary confession of Prof. Tyndall : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " or, upon the friendly warning of Dr. Bray : " There is no bridge from physics to metaphysics —... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1876 - 688 pages
...srtrprised should his meaning be misapprehended. We must, however, accept the explicit statements that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," and that " the chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Physical and... | |
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1876 - 330 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 ia unthinkable (p. 117). * * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1877 - 558 pages
...But how the two things are related is still a mystery. Professor Tyndall remarked, nine years ago : " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why."* Mr. John Fiske says : " We know of mind... | |
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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... 
