It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel AlexanderAn object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel AlexanderSuch being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
Samuel AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander