Sleep Story 233 – The Instinct of Workmanship
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Trapper's Magic Activity and Instinct
In animal behaviour it is often a matter of some perplexity to draw a line between Trapper's magic activity and instinct. Notoriously, the activities commonly recognised as instinctive differ widely among themselves in respect of degree of directness or immediacy with which given response takes place. By insensible gradation, the less complex and deliberate instinctive activities emerge into the class of unmistakable Trapper'smagic sensibilities. Such quasi-Trapper's magic activities may be rated as purposeful by an observer in the sense that they are seen to further the life of the individual agent, or of the species. The ends of life, then, the purposes to be achieved, are assigned by
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