But my very point is that when a human acts on instinct, they are not accessing this 'higher conscious' as you call it. Are you saying the difference between humans and animals here is that we can decide afterwards if our actions based on instinct were moral?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell