[Is Life Worth Living? by William Hurrell Mallock]@TWC D-Link bookIs Life Worth Living? CHAPTER IX 56/61
The first view is that consciousness is the general property of all matter, just as motion is. The second view is that consciousness is not the general property of matter, but the inexplicable property of the brain only. Here again we have a similar inconsistency.
Upon one page Dr.Tyndall says that when we have '_exhausted physics, and reached its very rim, a mighty Mystery stills looms beyond us.
We have made no step towards its solution.
And thus it will ever loom._' And on the opposite page he says thus: '_If asked whether science has solved, or is likely in our day to solve, the problem of the universe, I must shake my head in doubt._' Further, I will remind the reader of Dr.Tyndall's arguments, on one occasion, against any outside builder or creator of the material universe.
He argued that such did not exist, because his supposed action was not definitely presentable.
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