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... brain been identified with consciousness , that Professor Clifford seems to think it a strong argument against the existence of a God that we cannot find his brain . Mill and Tyndall , it is true , have perceived clearly enough the ...
... brain been identified with consciousness , that Professor Clifford seems to think it a strong argument against the existence of a God that we cannot find his brain . Mill and Tyndall , it is true , have perceived clearly enough the ...
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... brain with a kind of surprise . " But , strictly speaking , the molecules of the brain can be neither thrilled nor surprised ; at most they can only be the occasion of a thrill or surprise in a sentient subject . Let us look at Bain's ...
... brain with a kind of surprise . " But , strictly speaking , the molecules of the brain can be neither thrilled nor surprised ; at most they can only be the occasion of a thrill or surprise in a sentient subject . Let us look at Bain's ...
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... brain is at present com- posed , affections similar to those which existed in the molecules that formed it years ago , the simi- larity can only be apprehended by a single subject that was cognisant of both . Let us suppose two states ...
... brain is at present com- posed , affections similar to those which existed in the molecules that formed it years ago , the simi- larity can only be apprehended by a single subject that was cognisant of both . Let us suppose two states ...
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... brain , or something different from the brain . It cannot be the latter ( with Bain ) , for that would make it a metaphysical entity . Hence we must suppose it is the brain itself . But this supposition will not explain the existence of ...
... brain , or something different from the brain . It cannot be the latter ( with Bain ) , for that would make it a metaphysical entity . Hence we must suppose it is the brain itself . But this supposition will not explain the existence of ...
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... brain , and a visible pleasure ( not a pleasure felt by any one , but a pleasure seen by the physiologist ) in another part , and according to the law of brain action , by which two coexistent processes recall one another , there comes ...
... brain , and a visible pleasure ( not a pleasure felt by any one , but a pleasure seen by the physiologist ) in another part , and according to the law of brain action , by which two coexistent processes recall one another , there comes ...
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able absolutely infinite absurdity action admitted Anaxagoras apprehend argument from design assumed atoms attribute Bain's believe brain called capable cause Cogito ergo sum cognition Comte conception connection denied desire difference doctrine of necessity Dr Carpenter evolution existence experience explain external world facts of consciousness Ferrier forces freedom Hegel Hence Herbert Spencer human Hume imagine impressions inconceivable intelligent J. S. Mill Jonathan Edwards knowledge latter laws Lewes looseness or indifference maintain manifest Mansel means memory mental merely meta metaphysics mind motion movements muscles Natural Selection nature necessary necessitarian never ontology origin ourselves perceive permanent ego phenomena philosophy physical physiologist pleasure present principle produce Professor Bain proved psychology rational reason recognised reflection regard remember result rience sciousness seems seen sensation sense sentient sequence Spinoza subject and object substance succession supposed supposition theory things thought tion true truth ultimate universe volition voluntary WILLIAM BLACKWOOD word motive writers τὰ
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Página 43 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 35 - If, therefore, we speak of the mind as a series of feelings we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Página 47 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I:' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Página 100 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way...
Página 82 - ... any one who is acquainted with the history of science will admit that its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Página 105 - Design argument is not drawn from mere resemblances in Nature to the works of human intelligence, but from the special character of those resemblances. The circumstances in which it is alleged that the world resembles the works of man are not circumstances taken at random, but are particular instances of a circumstance which experience shows to have a real connection with an intelligent origin, the fact of conspiring to an end.
Página 72 - We feel that our actions are subject to our will on most occasions, and imagine we feel that the will itself is subject to nothing, because, when by a denial of it we are provoked to try, we feel that it moves easily every way, and produces an image of itself (or a "velleity," as it is called in the schools), even on that side on which it did not settle.
Página 100 - ... many parts of the body were so placed, that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the...