 | 1873 - 610 pages
...terialism,' he points out that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding fact of consciousness is unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite mole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not ' possess the intellectual organ, nor... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1874 - 178 pages
...errors of systematic Ma" terialism may paralyze the energies and de" stroy the beauty of a life." " The passage from the physics of the brain "to the corresponding facts of consciousness," says TYNDALL, "is unthinkable. ... On both "sides of the zone here assigned to the materi" alist he... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1875 - 470 pages
...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,...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecr1" action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not p the intellectual organ, nor apparently... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 454 pages
...the British Association at Norwich, in 1868, Professor Tyndall expressed himself as follows : — " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the bram occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 582 pages
...surprising self-confidence, as being determined, not only for the present, but for all time to come, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted (it is said) that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 820 pages
...the product and the organ it uses, they confound the one with the other. Says Professor Tyndall, " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. They appear together, but we do not know why. Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated... | |
 | 1875 - 822 pages
...the product and the organ it uses, they confound the one with the other. Says Professor Tyndall, " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. They appear together, but we do not know why. Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated... | |
 | 1875 - 808 pages
...knowledge. They may moderate their zeal by reflecting upon the involuntary confession of Prof. Tyndall ! "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable "; or, upon the friendly warning of Dr . Bray : " There is no bridge from physics to metaphysics —... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1875 - 44 pages
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association * * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable (p. 117). * * * In affirming thatthe growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...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,...mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from tbe physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a... | |
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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.... 
