mind-action

Updated: May 23, 2025

We want you to do this because this conclusion is at the basis of a practical system of mental efficiency and because, as we shall at once show you, it is capable of proof by the established methods of physical science. The fact is, one's opinion as to whether mind controls body or body makes mind-action depends altogether upon the point of view.

Warren Hilton - Psychology and Achievement : Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency

You may be one of those who believe that the mind is nothing more nor less than brain activity. You may believe that the body is all there is to man and that mind-action is merely one of its functions.

Warren Hilton - Psychology and Achievement : Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency

In the foregoing words of Emerson, there is brought to bear on dreams an energic conception of mind-action similar to that which Hobbes had developed in his Leviathan in 1651.

Various - The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10