Once I had a child, I realized how deep human instict is actually ingrained in our DNA. Make no mistake, we are a species of instinctive behaviors. Love, hate, indifference.... where do all these things come from? They are our form of in...
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Some sociobiologists and ethologists have attempted to comprehend human and animal social behavior in terms of instincts. Psychoanalysts have stated that instinct refers to human motivational forces (such as sex and aggression), sometimes represented as life instinct and death instinct.
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Human nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human nature is the concept that there are a set of characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that all 'normal' human beings have in common. The branches of science associated ...
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Dr Beetle says that humans have instincts, but most are learnt as mind-rules. Starting in an uncommitted cerebral cortex, experience is registered as short term and long term memory to eventually become fixed as minndrules. ... Yes, but they are stunted, restricted and confused instincts. The instincts found in humans...
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All animals have some basic instincts, and humans are animals, so we have those instincts as well. We have the instinct to survive and the instinct to reproduce (have children), so that the species will survive. So eating, drinking, and reproducing are instinctual behaviors.
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In The Language Instinct (1996), Steven Pinker tries to convince us that language is an instinctual behavior of human beings. Most readers tend to be convinced by his arguments; certainly I am. However, he did not give us much idea what other human activities he would also call instincts.
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One human heeds the call of the child-bearing instinct. It feels right and natural (as do all instincts). The notion of doing anything to prevent bearing children becomes a betrayal of a basic human function, which is, unconsciously, a betrayal of our duty to continue our species.
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He argued that human behavior is more flexibly intelligent than that of other animals because we have more instincts than they do, not fewer. We tend to be blind to the existence of these instincts, however, precisely because they work so well -- because they process information so effortlessly and automatically.
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As stated by Ruffié ((Ruffié, 1972), p. 129(2)) : « From now on, every baby will benefit from the experience of the human beings that preceded him/her. This experience is not innate (it escapes almost all instincts) but acquired.
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