These ideas just bounce off Sheldrake. He doesn't bite. After all, his God is, well, British. Rupert Sheldrake is only a heretic in the Church of Science. But in the end, Sheldrake successfully defends the profundity of his current animal work.
Science believes animals and plants are all just unconscious automatons.
The whole of nature is unconscious except for human beings. We're the only smart guys in the whole universe and somehow figured out how everything works. And that means through science we can manipulate nature and improve products for corporations. Then Freud reinvented the unconscious. Then Jung said it's not just a personal unconscious but a collective unconscious.