 But 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...  The Contemporary Review - Page 2291871Full view - About this book
 | 1869
...were to grant — what is, after all, however, a mere hypothesis — " that a definite thought and a ed business of the world, Two in the liberal offices...the abyss Of science and the secrets of the mind : Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1882 - 586 pages
...to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | 1890 - 732 pages
..."scientific materialism." Nevertheless he feels constrained to say, " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." ' Or if we turn from English science to... | |
 | 1869 - 826 pages
...brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds ana senses so expanded, strengthened, end illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules... | |
 | 1869 - 844 pages
...sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain," but " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. " In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised by us, has... | |
 | 1869 - 802 pages
...The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. We do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other." On these questions " the materialist is helpless. If you ask him, Whence is this matter of which we... | |
 | Theophilus Parvin - 1869 - 802 pages
...possess the intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any endowment of the organ which would enable us to span by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomenon to the other." One thing is always to be regretted in the re -publication of English works by the house to which we... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 82 pages
...brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomehon to the other. They appear together, but we clo not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
 | 1872 - 648 pages
...(Spencer's Psychology, p. 158, Am. Ed.). "Granted." says Prof. Tyndall, "that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why " (Tyndall's Fragments of Science, p. 120).... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 116 pages
...to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
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