The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
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