He was putting forward - persuasively - a wholly mechanistic view of mental processes.
It encourages us to take a mechanistic view of that transaction: put in this nutrient; get out that physiological result.
It reflected a very mechanistic view of the human anatomy and its functions.
You take such a mechanistic view of the universe.
Newton's mechanistic view of the universe yielded to Einstein's relativity.
The latter's extremely mechanistic view of the mind had no need for human values, conscience or any authority other than Hubbard himself.
Marx and Engels are claimed to have possessed a very mechanistic view of the way the human mind works.
This going headlong for things is a mechanistic view, and people in general aren't machines.
Just like medicine, he believed that chemistry could not be reduced to mechanistic views.
At that point I was leaning pretty much to a mechanistic view of the relationship between the two worlds.