 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
 | Richard Heber Newton - 1885 - 366 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 to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | Morton Prince - 1885 - 200 pages
...of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action of the brain, occur simultaneously : we do not possess...intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organs which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other. They appear... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1887 - 352 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,...not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently the rudiments of an organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1887 - 350 pages
...occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently the rudiments of an organ, which would enable 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,... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 388 pages
...Professor Tyndall, "unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action of the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess...of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other." Were we possessed of all knowledge, so that we could look nature through and through, all its parts... | |
 | David Kay (F.R.G.S.) - 1888 - 378 pages
...Professor Tyndall, "unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action of the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess...of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other." "Were we possessed of all knowledge, so that we could look nature through and through, all its parts... | |
 | James Martineau - 1888 - 464 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,... | |
 | 1875 - 880 pages
...connection between them." And again elsewhere : • "Granted that a definite thought and adetinite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organs, nor apparently any rudiment of the organs, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning... | |
 | Hallam Lord Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson - 1897 - 1104 pages
...apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." ' In a letter from the present Master of Balliol to me. And in " In Memoriam " he had written thus... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 388 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 to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." * In a letter from the present Master... | |
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