... (stimuli) and classesof behavior, and they have devised rigorous, refut-able theories to account for those relationships. The theories of Hull and Tolman are examples, and thereare many others. Other ... abilities to imagine, to will, and to hope, and these hu-man attributes can and usually do distort percep-tions. For example, it is common for people to see events as they would like them to be ratherthan ... inhabiting a plant, then an ani-mal, and then a human, then a plant again, and soon. What the soul longed for was its liberation fromthis transmigration and a return to its divine, pure,transcendent...