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    Supports→Interpreting animal behavior requires perceiving one's own mentality at developmental levels below reflective self-consciousness

    Understanding animal minds demands introspective access to sub-reflective levels of one's own mental development

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    To interpret animal behavior one must learn also to see one’s own mentality at levels of development much lower than one’s top-level of reflective self-consciousness. It is not easy, and savors somewhat of paradox. (Morgan 1932: 250)

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