Ants And Some Other Insects An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals
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In these very instances the difference is most striking, and they dem- onstrate most clearly through comparison and contrast the plus possessed by more intelligent insects. THE REALM OF WILL. The notion of volition, in contradistinction to the notion of reflex action, presupposes the expiration of a certain time interval and the operation of mediating and complex brain-activities be- tween the sense-impression and the movement which it conditions. In the operation of the purposeful automatisms ...of instinct which 30 ANTS AND SOME OTHER INSECTS. arouse one another into activity in certain sequences, there is also a time interval, filled out by internal, dynamic brain-processes as in the case of the will. Hence these are not pure reflexes. They may for a time suffer interruption and then be again continued. But their operation is brought about in great measure by a con- catenation of complicated reflexes which follow one another in a compulsory order. On this account the term automatism or in- stinct is justifiable.
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