 ... 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
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 pages
...facts of consciousness is unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite mole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do '...possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any 'rudiments of the organ, which would enable us to ' pass by a process of reasoning from the one to... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1879 - 200 pages
...apparently, any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a 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."... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of conVOL. IV. scionsn ess 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,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of couVOL. iv. sciousness 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,... | |
 | William Wallace - 1880 - 296 pages
...the relation to the physics of the brain, the case is otherwise. " Granted," says the same writer,1 " that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other." If we have rightly understood Epicurus, he has simply ignored the ego and consciousness,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1880 - 436 pages
...a thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the organ,...phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but ive do not know why." In 1875, reviewing Martineau in the Popular Science Monthly for December, Tyndall... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Cocker - 1882 - 214 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... | |
 | Samuel Hulme - 1881 - 292 pages
...to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of it, which could enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from one phenomena to the other. They appear... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1881 - 384 pages
...to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of it, which could enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other. They... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1881 - 384 pages
...simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of it, which could enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the...one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, we know not why." There is no proof, then, that consciousness is inseparably connected with the physical... | |
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