 | 1869
...connexion." Sothat, even if we were to grant — what is, after all, however, a mere hypothesis — " that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...other. They appear together, but we do not know why." 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 pagine
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...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 pagine
...Tyndall maintains what he calls "scientific materialism." Nevertheless he feels constrained to say, " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular...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 pagine
...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...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 92 pagine
...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...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,... | |
 | 1872 - 648 pagine
...the two into juxtaposition" (Spencer's Psychology, p. 158, Am. Ed.). "Granted." says Prof. Tyndall, "that a definite thought and a definite molecular...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).... | |
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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... 
