The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. C. Lloyd Morgan More Quotes by C. Lloyd Morgan More Quotes From C. Lloyd Morgan 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 psychology exercise animal