 ... 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...  Quarterly Journal of Science: 1868 - Page 5011868Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 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... | |
 | 1872 - 642 pages
...apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why" (Tyndall's Fragments of Science, p. 120). If thought, however, be but a form of physical force, necessarily... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...'The passage from the physics of the brain lo the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. 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. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pages
...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...other. They appear together, but we do not know why." — TYNDALL, Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, 1868. To... | |
 | James McCosh - 1875 - 76 pages
...structure — it may rise to intelligence and feeling. He has, however, to allow in his Appendix, " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other." He speaks of the chasm between the two classes of phenomena being " intellectually impassable."... | |
 | London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1875 - 268 pages
...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...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why The chasm between the two classes of phenomena... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1875 - 478 pages
...have said, some remarkable reflections of the great English physicist, Tyndall. 'Granted,' says he, '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. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1875 - 470 pages
...a definite thought, and a definite molecr1" action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not p the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment...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,... | |
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