| Randolph Sinks Foster - 1890 - 472 страници
...be accounted for by the unity of the brain. (There is nosuch unity.) . . . Tyndall himself says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkTyndau-s tes- a^e- Granting that a definite thought and a defitimony. njj-e molecular action... | |
| Washington Gladden - 1891 - 266 страници
...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 pre-scientific... | |
| Rev. William H. Campbell - 1891 - 348 страници
...Even Tyndall, an infidel evolutionist, says: "I bow my head in the dust before the majesty of mind. The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as a result of mechanics." The effect is so infinitely greater than the cause that it... | |
| John Tyndall - 1892 - 508 страници
...differ in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not -demonstrable, is conceivable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical...brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is inconceivable as a result of mechanics. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action... | |
| 1892 - 822 страници
...acknowledged, on all hands, that there is no common nature between consciousness and a nerve-motion, and that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," yet the prevailing habit of investigating the mind from the objective side constantly feeds the tendency... | |
| George Claude Lorimer - 1892 - 122 страници
...form from whence this varied universe has sprung, and those in Scientific Materialism that confess " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness " to be " unthinkable," and that declare " molecular groupings and molecular motions " to be very far... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1893 - 134 страници
...are associated with them. " They appear together," says Professor Tyndall, " but we do not know why. The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." The docenergy." oJ The "conservation of trine of the " conservation of energy "— that no amount of... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1893 - 214 страници
...necessity for pain in my 'Inspiration,' pp. 141-161. sciousness "before the dissolution of the body. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granting that a definite thought and a definite molecular action occur in the brain simultaneously,... | |
| Frederic Henry Balfour - 1893 - 356 страници
...people see in the influence of mind upon matter and matter upon mind? The professor Tyndall says that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Is it so now ? We feel with our minds, they say. True; for we cannot touch the tiniest spot of our... | |
| James Orr - 1893 - 586 страници
...5, Du BoisReymond regards as insoluble. sets of facts, which require to be carefully kept apart. " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness," says Professor Tyndall, " is unthinkable."1 "I know nothing, and never hope to know anything," says... | |
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