...direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable,...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...

...Association at Norwich, in 1868. The following extract will show the position then taken. He says : — " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual...

...AUTOMATIC. 161 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 that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think...

...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 that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think...

...study of the nervous system." Dr. Tyndall (" Address on Scientific Materialism," Norwich) says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. The chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Professor Huxley says...

...considered by the great majority of those most able to judge, as not only unsolved, but insoluble. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." It may be, and probably is, true that thought is accompanied by, and is dependent on, motions of the...

...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...

...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...

...direction will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the...

...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." (Fragments of Science, 1111.) True, tinmanner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such...