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" ... the passage from the physics of the .brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor,... "
The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science - Page 200
1868
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London Society, Volume 16; Volume 18

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 810 pages
...we do not Bee where the materialism can give the 86s irov irr£t. As Professor Tyndall truly says: 'The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Even Professor Huxley speaks of the wellfounded doctrine that life is the cause, and not the consequence...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 99

1868 - 978 pages
...clci-tric current of a given direction will detlect a magnetic; needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable-, (i ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...
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The Medical circular [afterw.] The London medical press & circular ..., Volume 2

1868 - 596 pages
...electric current of a given direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current...demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt аз to the final mechanical solution of the problem; but the passage from the physics of the brain...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 38

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 862 pages
...electric current of a given direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the coses differ in this, that the passage from the current...the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and mat we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from...
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The Anthropological Review, Volume 7

1869 - 688 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite."* Dr. Tyudall, however, says, "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Of course that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain, can never think how it is...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

1869 - 802 pages
...say, / feel, I think, I live, but how does this consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? ... The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. We do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 63

1901 - 510 pages
...Wundt and others, but by Spencer and Tyndall even. Kant, Spencer, du Bois-Reymond and Tyndall hold that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Haeckel says that when certain parts of the brain are diseased or affected, the corresponding sense...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 106

1870 - 880 pages
...minds. Mr. Wallace himself quotes with approval the words of Professor Tyndall, that on any hypothesis " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Why then lose confidence in a theory of organic davelopment because it seems to halt on the threshold...
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On Intelligence

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 606 pages
...experiences ; of a given direction will de0ect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current...; but the passage from the physics of the brain to tht corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite...
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Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays ...

John Tyndall - 1871 - 438 pages
...electric current of a given direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current...no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the oblem. But the passage from the physics of the brain ' the corresponding facts of consciousness is...
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