C. Lloyd Morgan quotes

C. Lloyd Morgan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.”
-- C. Lloyd Morgan

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“In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.”
-- C. Lloyd Morgan

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