| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 810 Seiten
...we do not Bee where the materialism can give the 86s irov irr£t. As Professor Tyndall truly says: 'The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Even Professor Huxley speaks of the wellfounded doctrine that life is the cause, and not the consequence... | |
| 1868 - 978 Seiten
...character; the inference, for example, that an clci-tric current of a given direction will detlect a magnetic; needle in a definite way ; but the cases...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable-, (i ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,... | |
| 1869 - 688 Seiten
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite."* Dr. Tyudall, however, says, "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Of course that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain, can never think how it is... | |
| 1869 - 802 Seiten
...say, / feel, I think, I live, but how does this consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? ... 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 any rudiment of the organ, which would enable... | |
| 1901 - 510 Seiten
...Wundt and others, but by Spencer and Tyndall even. Kant, Spencer, du Bois-Reymond and Tyndall hold that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Haeckel says that when certain parts of the brain are diseased or affected, the corresponding sense... | |
| 1870 - 880 Seiten
...minds. Mr. Wallace himself quotes with approval the words of Professor Tyndall, that on any hypothesis " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Why then lose confidence in a theory of organic davelopment because it seems to halt on the threshold... | |
| 1871 - 318 Seiten
...bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association. You may reply that many of the inferences of science are of this character...intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the "'hich would enable us to pass by a process f "-om the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together,... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 Seiten
...Section of the British Association at Norwich, in 1868, Professor Tyndall expressed himself as follows: 'The passage from the physics of the brain to the...definite thought, and a definite molecular action of the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rndiment... | |
| 1871 - 674 Seiten
...Association at Norwich, in 1868. The following extract will show the position then taken. He says : — " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and the definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual... | |
| 1871 - 850 Seiten
...properly asks for a little more precision. How does consciousness infuse itself intO4 the problem ? Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these p'.iysical processes connected... | |
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