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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.... "
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ... - Page 100
1869
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Faith and Rationalism: With Short Supplementary Essays on Related Topics

George Park Fisher - 1879 - 200 pages
...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." " The problem of the connection of the body and soul is as insoluble, as it was in the presoientific...
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Philosophy Historical and Critical: By André Lefèvre. Tr. with an ...

André Lefèvre - 1879 - 632 pages
...address to the physical section of the British Association, which has become famous, confesses that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is rxTHiXKABLK." The rest of the passage, which is extremely instructive and most satisfactory to the...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 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,...physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of couVOL. iv. sciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 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,...physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of conVOL. IV. scionsn ess is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action...
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The new truth and the old faith, by a scientific layman

New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...instrument of research is itself the object of investigation." Dr. Tyndall has also admitted "that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unattainable," and Professor Clerk Maxwell records his belief that "no new discoveries can make the...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

John Caird - 1880 - 412 pages
...appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story." " The passage," says Mr. Tyndall, " from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." But if we reflect for a moment on the two propositions, first, that mind or mental activity is a mode...
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The Catholic literary circular

414 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,...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Modern philosophers by their exoteric researches have worked admirably within their own province, and...
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Memoir of the rev. Thomas Allin

Samuel Hulme - 1881 - 292 pages
...consciousness, or life. To use the words of the most audacious speculative materialist of the present day : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual...
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Faith and Freedom

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...
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Faith and Freedom

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...
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