 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1881 - 384 pages
...thought or thought physical motion. " The passage from the physics of the brain," says Dr. Tyndall, " to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1881 - 384 pages
...thought or thought physical motion. " The passage from the physics of the brain," says Dr. Tyndall, " to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1882 - 456 pages
...thought or thought physical motion. ' The passage from the physics of the brain,' says Dr. Tyndall, ' to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 pages
...expressed what they have seen in language as clear as their vision. Professor Tyndall writes : The pa4kge from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular a<tion in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 604 pages
...address before the mathematical and physical section of the British Association in 1868 he says : " 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... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 392 pages
...can represent, as one and the same, a fact of consciousness and the oscillation of a nerve-molecule. "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable b," says Professor Tyndall. " No b Address to the Physical and Mathematical Section of the British... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 394 pages
...represent, as one and the same, a fact of consciousness and the oscillation of a nerve-molecule. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable b," says Professor Tyndall. " No b Address to the Physical and Mathematical Section of the British... | |
 | 1886 - 508 pages
...materialism, with anything like an authoritative utterance adverse to the former; acknowledging that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." "Science is mute here," says the modern "master of words;" but, as if fearing an inference of a sort... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite.* Dr. Tyndall, however, says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Why so ? Of course that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think how... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...mind ? No matter. What is matter ? Never mind. What is the soul ? It is immaterial. — Thomas Hood. The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. — John Tyndall. What I object to in Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as... | |
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But 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... 
