 | Albany Institute - 1876 - 326 pages
...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 that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 418 pages
...Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association in 1868, wherein he declared that " 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... | |
 | 1893 - 564 pages
...mere ' function ' or a ' secretion ' of the brain, for Professor Tyndall tells us that ' the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable,' and all modern physiologists admit that though the brain process and the thought process arc synchronous... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 pages
...as the most advanced physicists are constrained to admit, with Professor Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," the theory of a separate and spiritual soul, in some way — to us mysterious, but, for aught we know,... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1876 - 330 pages
...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 ia unthinkable (p. 117). * * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought,... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...possess " (Preface to the seventh ed. of " Belfast Address," Appletons' ed., p. 28). " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable" ("Scientific Materialism," Appletons' ed., p. 117). (2) Hamilton, " Lectures on Metaphysics," Lect.... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 696 pages
...love ; ' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? " And thus answers : "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...admissions that " molecular groupings and molecular motions explain nothing ; " that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " and that, if love were known to be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the molecules... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 pages
...; ' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? " And thus answers : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 616 pages
...body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the preseientific ages." "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable/' (Fragments of Science, 119.) True, the manner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
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... 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... 
