Demonology

So, I'm researching demonology for a little something I'm writing and I came across this on the web.

"When Socrates, in the Apology, claimed to be advised by a daimon, he meant (it
seems) more or less what we now call "the voice of conscience" (or would call
it, if we were still old-fashioned enough to believe in a conscience)." (http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/demonology.html)

I don't know who the author is (likely a young student) but I hope in the 10 years since this was written that student has learned that belief in a "conscience" is not old-fashioned but essential to good human living.